The definitive shelf: musicians telling their own stories, and the biographers who filled in what they left out. Across genres, across eras — the books that get you inside the life behind the music.
Music Biography & Memoir Books
- Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock - Hardcover
- Almost Grown: A New York Memoir - Hardcover
- Brothers - Paperback
- Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses - Hardcover
- Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice - Hardcover
- Pet Shop Boys Volume: The Complete Visual Record - Hardcover
- My Effin' Life - Paperback
- Fela: Music Is the Weapon - Hardcover
- Journals - Paperback
- Elvis Is Dead, I'm Still Alive: The Story of Asian Man Records - Paperback
- Between a Heart and a Rock Place - Paperback
- Girl in a Band (10th Anniversary Edition): A Memoir - Paperback
- Woolgathering - Paperback
- The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told - Hardcover
- What Would Dolly Do?: How to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World - Hardcover
- The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership That Rocked the World - Hardcover
- What Happened to Your Hair?: How We Played Loud... Loved Proud... and Never Backed Down... Together - Hardcover
- Born to Run - Paperback
- Beyoncé-One of One: History Lessons, Love Letters, and Affirmations from a Cultural Icon - Hardcover
- Cash: The Autobiography - Paperback
- Writing Better Lyrics: The Essential Guide to Powerful Songwriting - Paperback
- Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run - Hardcover
- The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography - Paperback
- Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road - Paperback
- The Silver Snarling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead--The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter - Paperback
- John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs - Paperback
- Maestros and Their Music: The Art and Alchemy of Conducting - Paperback
- Rhythm & Fire: A Life in Harmony with Earth, Wind & Fire - Hardcover
- Keep It Beautiful: Inside the Funkyverse of Shock G and Digital Underground - Hardcover
- Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 - Paperback
- The Dead Milkmen - Paperback
- This Thug's Life - Hardcover
- Acid for the Children: A Memoir - Paperback
- Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk - Paperback
- The Hours Are Long, But the Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music - Paperback
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music - Paperback
- Ringo: A Fab Life - Paperback
- Dolly Parton: In Her Own Words - Paperback
- John Williams: A Composer's Life - Hardcover
- In My Darkest Hour: A Memoir - Hardcover
- The Royal We - Hardcover
- 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool - Paperback
- Insomnia - Hardcover
- I Am Ozzy - Paperback
- Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry - Hardcover
- Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift - Hardcover
- Miles: The Autobiography - Paperback
- Strange Things Happen - Paperback
- Little Book of Elvis Presley: Inspirational Quotes from the King of Rock 'n' Roll - Hardcover
- What Mattered Most: A Memoir - Hardcover