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
- Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin - Paperback
- Lz-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour - Paperback
- Led Zeppelin The Definitive Biography: Led to Gold 1967 - 1989 - Paperback
- Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell - Hardcover
- Reading the Grateful Dead: A Critical Survey - Hardcover
- Paul McCartney: The Stories Behind 50 Classic Songs, 1970-2020 - Hardcover
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash - Hardcover
- This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century - Paperback
- Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash - Hardcover
- There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and the End of the Heartland - Hardcover
- Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now - Paperback
- Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine - Hardcover
- Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney - Paperback
- Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters Volume 19 - Hardcover
- Johnny Cash: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations - Paperback
- 40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart - Hardcover
- I Was There When It Happened: My Life with Johnny Cash - Hardcover
- Orbit: The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - Hardcover
- House of Cash: The Legacies of My Father, Johnny Cash - Paperback
- Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison - Paperback
- Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography, 1961-2022, 3D Ed. - Paperback
- Paul McCartney: The Noughties Vol.4: The Songs He Was Singing - Paperback
- Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece, Revised and Updated - Paperback
- Cash on Cash: Interviews and Encounters with Johnny Cash Volume 21 - Paperback
- Another Day - Paul McCartney - Hardcover
- Listen Up!: Recording Music with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, U2, R.E.M., the Tragically Hip, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits... - Paperback
- Johnny Cash: The Biography - Paperback
- Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics - Hardcover
- U2: The Definitive Biography - Paperback
- Band on the Run: A History of Paul McCartney and Wings - Paperback
- Conversations with McCartney: Paul McCartney on Fame, Family, and the Beatles - Paperback
- Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances - Hardcover
- Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon - Hardcover
- Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time - Paperback
- Bob Dylan's Hibbing - Paperback
- Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil - Hardcover
- Better Than Lennon, the Music and Talent of Paul McCartney - Paperback
- The Man in Song: A Discographic Biography of Johnny Cash - Paperback
- Rat Girl - Paperback
- Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir - Paperback
- Face It: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Eminent Hipsters - Paperback
- In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death & Duran Duran - Paperback
- Dirty Rocker Boys: Love and Lust on the Sunset Strip - Paperback
- I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance - Paperback
- Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs - Paperback
- Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars - Paperback
- Take It Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy George - Paperback
- Dolly Parton - Hardcover