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
- Magnum Opus: The Unbelievable 15-Year Saga of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy - Paperback
- Waylon: Autobiography - Hardcover
- Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion - Paperback
- Michael Jackson: The Man, the Music, the Controversy - Paperback
- Backstage Pass: Decades of Sex, Drugs, Tragedy and the Darker Side of Rock & Roll - Paperback
- The Dirty Version: On Stage, in the Studio, and in the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard - Paperback
- Slacker: 1991, Teen Spirit Angst, and the Generation It Created - Paperback
- From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga - Paperback
- My Love Story - Paperback
- Tim - The Official Biography of Avicii - Paperback
- The Occult Elvis: The Mystical and Magical Life of the King - Paperback
- Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell - Paperback
- Somebody to Love?: A Rock-And-Roll Memoir - Paperback
- Enter Night: A Biography of Metallica - Paperback
- Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music - Hardcover
- George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door - Paperback
- Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Busted Up the Old Boys Club - Paperback
- Garcia: An American Life - Paperback
- A Sound So Very Loud: The Inside Story of Every Song Oasis Recorded - Hardcover
- My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor - Paperback
- The Last Days of John Lennon - Paperback
- My Friend, Weezer: A Visual Time Capsule of One of Rock's Most Iconic Bands - Hardcover
- Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day - Paperback
- My Appetite for Destruction - Paperback
- Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century - Paperback
- Sun Ra: Collected Works Vol. 1 - Immeasurable Equation - Paperback
- Gypsy Alibi: A Gonzo Memoir - Hardcover
- My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy - Paperback
- Let's Go to Hell: Scattered Memories of the Butthole Surfers - Paperback
- Decoded - Paperback
- What a Fool Believes: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Tune in: The Beatles: All These Years - Paperback
- Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter - Paperback
- Slash - Paperback
- Kristofferson: The Wild American - Paperback
- Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis - Hardcover
- DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution - Hardcover
- Makeup to Breakup: My Life in and Out of Kiss - Paperback
- Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock - Paperback
- I, Tina: My Life Story - Paperback
- Who's That Girl?: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Hard-Core: Life of My Own - Paperback
- I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen - Paperback
- Conversations with Tom Petty - Paperback
- Dolly Parton: The Stories Behind the Songs: The Very Best Tracks, Explored and Explained - Hardcover
- Run-DMC and Raising Hell: 40 Years - Hardcover
- Beyond a Love Supreme: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album - Paperback
- Rush and 2112: Fifty Years - Hardcover
- The Great Genius Inspiration of Taylor Swift: From Debut, Eras Tour, and Taylor's Version Albums - A Women Empowering Musical Biography for All Ages - Paperback
- Bryan Adams: A Fretted Biography - The First Six Albums - Paperback