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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorPearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin
Ellis Amburn · 378 pages
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin
Myra Friedman · 333 pages
Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain
Charles R. Cross · 400 pages
Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic
Jim Derogatis · 341 pages
"Let It Blurt is the biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82) - the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electri
No One Here Gets Out Alive
Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman · 387 pages
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Crystal Zevon · 452 pages
When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left a trove of misadventures and anecdotes, a veritable rock opera of drugs, women, celebrity, high times, and hard ways. As Warren once said, "I got to be J
27: A History of the 27 Club Through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
Howard Sounes · 359 pages
When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. “Now he's gone and joined that stupid club,” she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. “I told him not to….” Kurt's mom was referring to the extraordinary roll call of iconic stars who died at the same
Bowie In Berlin: A New Career In A New Town
Thomas Jerome Seabrook · 272 pages
By 1975 rock icon David Bowie was in crisis. Lost in Los Angeles, he was ravaged by cocaine abuse, overwork, and an obsession with the occult, while his marriage lay in tatters. Desperate to reignite his creative spark, Bowie relocated in mid-1976 to Berlin, accompanied by an equally troubled Iggy Pop, former Stooges front man. The move to Berlin proved fortuitous both personally and professionall
Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
David Ritz · 376 pages
Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story
Dave Thompson · 172 pages
Bird Lives!: The High Life & Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
Ross Russell · 404 pages
The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
Peter Brown, Stephen Gaines · 433 pages
Presents the lives of the four Beatles and material on their retinue, rise to fame, and lives after the breakup of the group.
Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd
Mike Watkinson, Pete Anderson · 192 pages
Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison
James Riordan, Jerry Prochnicky · 544 pages
The story of the career, life, and death of the rock legend, based on interviews, with new sources and photographs.
Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
Bob Mehr · 501 pages
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy
Harry Shapiro, Caesar Glebbeek · 723 pages
Biography of the rock musician's life from his boyhood to his tragic death.
Petty: The Biography
Warren Zanes · 323 pages
Zanes provides an honest and evocative examination of Petty's music, and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Petty was a kid without a whole lot of promise; rock and roll made it otherwise. His story has all the drama of a rock and roll epic. Dark and mysterious, Petty manages to come back, again and again, showing us what the music can do and where it can take us
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Stanley Booth · 576 pages
Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger
Christopher Andersen · 364 pages
Shares insights into the iconic rock-and-roll performer's life, from his substance abuse challenges and his bisexual history to his connections to the British royal family and the secret attempt on his life.
Whatever You Say I Am: The Life And Times Of Eminem
Anthony Bozza · 288 pages
Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson
Peter Ames Carlin · 352 pages