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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAC/DC: Maximum Rock Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World’s Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band
Murray Engleheart, Arnaud Durieux · 496 pages
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Stanley Booth · 576 pages
I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon
Toure · 163 pages
Drawing on new research and enlivened by author Touré's unique pop-cultural fluency, I would die 4 u relies on interviews with Prince's band members, former girlfriends, musicologists, and even Bible scholars to deconstruct the artist's life and work.--Publisher's description.
Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
Peter Guralnick · 363 pages
Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd
Mark Blake · 384 pages
U2 at the End of the World
Bill Flanagan · 508 pages
U2 at the End of the World takes you across four continents over four years with the biggest rock band of the last decade. In that time U2 shares adventures and ideas with a host of cultural big shots, including Bill Clinton and Mick Jagger, Salman Rushdie and Pearl Jam, Wim Wenders and R.E.M. From Dublin to Mexico, Tokyo to Hollywood, U2 at the End of the World takes you to the strange intersecti
Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who
Dave Marsh · 546 pages
Five Against One
Kim Neely · 364 pages
More than any other band, Pearl Jam embodies the alternative style that dominates rock today. From their early days as fame-ducking grunge pioneers, through their headline-making battle with Ticketmaster, to their current status as self-assured survivors, Five Against One brings to life Pearl Jam's tumultuous ascent to superstardom in rich detail. A compelling portrait of the band's elusive leader
Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words
Malka Marom
When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their last recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka dis
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
The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s
Peter Doggett · 432 pages
Cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of David Bowie's most productive and inspired decade, and traces the way in which his music reflected and influenced the world around him.
Many Years from Now
Paul McCartney, Barry Miles · 671 pages
Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
Barney Hoskyns · 330 pages
Evening in the Palace of Reason
James Gaines · 368 pages
"James R. Gaines's Evening in the Palace of Reason sets up what seems to be the ultimate mismatch: a young, glamorously triumphant warrior-king, heralded by Voltaire as the very It Boy of the Enlightenment, pitted against a devout, bad-tempered composer of "outdated" music, a scorned genius in his last years, symbol of a bygone world. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a pivotal momen
John & Paul
Ian Leslie
The 23-year relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney is viewed through the lens of the songs they wrote together.
Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story
David Buckley · 688 pages
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
Deborah Curtis · 212 pages
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Paul Brannigan · 400 pages
The epic story of a singular career that includes Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, and Them Crooked Vultures. Based on ten years of original, exclusive interviews with the man himself and conversations with a legion of musical associates like Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, DC punk legend Ian MacKaye, and Nevermind producer Butch Vig, this is Grohl₂s story. He speaks ca
Kansas City Lightning
Stanley Crouch · 382 pages
The first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at 34. With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cult
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy
Harry Shapiro, Caesar Glebbeek · 723 pages
Biography of the rock musician's life from his boyhood to his tragic death.
Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s
Tom Doyle · 284 pages
The most famous living rock musician on the planet, Paul McCartney is now regarded as a slightly cosy figure, an (inter)national treasure. Back in the 1970s, however, McCartney cut a very different figure. He was, literally, a man on the run. Desperately trying to escape the shadow of the Beatles, he became an outlaw hippy millionaire, hiding out on his Scottish farmhouse in Kintyre before travell