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I have a guilty secret. I like to read rock biographies. They are my vice, my guilty pleasure. My reward after having completed a bit of study or read a bit of worthy literature. However, I consider them a guilty pleasure as although easy to read and entertaining, increasingly often after finishing them I have a feeling of emptiness and disappointment.

The exceptions to this over the years have been books whose authors are good writers and do not use ghost writers – Dylan’s Chronicles, Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Donald Fagen’s Eminent Hipsters. One ghost written one that sticks in the memory as being a very satisfying read is Levon Helm’s Wheel on Fire. Music journalist biographers whose work I enjoy are Barney Hoskyns, Howard Sounes, Clinton Heylin and David Buckley (although I couldn’t get on with his Kraftwerk book that I was looking forward to) I think I actually enjoy the books written by music journalists – either compilations of their writing or specific theory books. Simon Reynolds and Nick Kent stand out here.

Anyway from now on I am intending to limit my consumption of these artefacts and only engage with the very best. With that in mind I would like your opinion on whether any of these are worth bothering with?
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Robert Forster
Elvis Costello
Lol Tolhurst
Kim Gordon
Russell Senior
Dylan Jones on Bowie
and the biography of Robert Wyatt

And also considering what I do enjoy, any other books thing else along these lines that you think I would suit me. Thanking you in advance for your kind opinions and recommendations.

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  1. Not biography but autobiography – Julian Cope’s Head-on and Repossessed are both fantastic reads. He is rigorously frank and open, not least about himself.

    Don’t know about the ones listed in the OP though I’m keen to read the Cosey and Robert Wyatt books.

    • Enjoyed Cosey’s book “Art, Sex, Music” and the Wyatt biography “Different Every Time”. Julian Cope’s double bio “Head On/Repossessed”is very good indeed.
      Also highly recommended are the late Deke Leonard’s 3 autobiographical books. He was a fantastic tale-teller and a very amusing man.
      “Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics” deals with his exploits with the Man band until they broke up in the late ’70s. A great account of the drug-addled lunacy of the late ’60s and early ’70s.
      “Maybe I Should Have Stayed In Bed” deals with his early years of struggle and mishap in local Welsh bands up until he was recruited for Man. In my opinion the best of the three.
      “Maximum Darkness” is about Man’s ’80s revival as a touring band. Probably the least interesting but still a good read.
      If you want to branch out into Jazz biography, Simon Spillett’s biography of Tubby Hayes, “The Long Shadow Of The Little Giant” is a good read. “”High Times, Hard Times” by Anita O’Day with George Eels is a warts & all account of her career as a jazz vocalist and her struggle with Heroin addiction.
      I’ve read a good few books on Frank Zappa but none of them truly satisfy. There’s an awful lot that he seemingly did not want to reveal. I reckon one of his kids will reveal all sooner or later.
      John Lydon’s “Anger Is An Energy” is quite good but not all that revealing. Haven’t read his first effort, whatever it’s called.
      Ian Carr’s “Miles Davis” and John Szwed’s “So What” give a very good picture between them of Miles Davis’ life. Szwed edges it as being the less academic of the two.
      Bruce Dickinson’s “What Does This Button Do?” gets rather dull about ⅔ of the way in after a good start.
      Peter Doggett’s “You Never Give Me Your Money” is very instructive on the breakup of The Beatles.
      Jah Wobble’s “Memoirs Of A Geezer” is OK. Interesting how he slags just about everyone off and then praises them shortly after.
      Keith Richards’ self-serving “Life” is quite entertaining in the first half and then gets very dull.
      Springsteen’s “Born To Run” is great until about ⅔ the way through and then it gets boring recounting tour after tour after tour, once he’s become a huge star. Needed a firm editorial hand.
      Didn’t think much of Moby’s “Porcelain”. Didn’t warm to him at all and thought that he came over as a rather annoying prat.

      In my yet to read pile (well, on my Kindle awaiting attention) are biogs of Thelonious Monk and Muddy Waters, “Straight Life” the story of saxophonist Art Pepper written by him and his incredibly loyal and long-suffering wife Laurie. Also the 2 volumes so far published of Mark Lewisohn’s Beatles saga.

  2. Costello’s book is a great read. He can really write.

    Gordon’s I found too distanced. Never got behind the shades, so to speak.

    The Wyatt biog I really liked with no previous relation to his music.

    Same with Viv Albertine’s first, Boys Boys Boys Music Music Music Clothes Clothes Clothes, or something like that.

  3. I think I liked the Dylan Jones more than most on here, but I enjoyed hearing Bowie’s contemporaries with their thoughts and memories of him.

    Plus I can also highly recommend the Julian Cope books.

  7. Peter Hook’s Books * – Unknown Pleasures (Joy Division), Substance (New Order) and The Hacienda – all worth a read
    (* not the name of a bookshop, but probably should be)

    Dear Boy – The Life Of Keith Moon
    Before I Get Old – The Story Of The Who
    Ian Dury Biography (Will Birch)

    John Lydon – Anger Ia An Enerrgy is good, but the first tome (No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs) is a better read.
    Steve Jones – Lonely Boy is disarmingly honest

    Rod Stewart autobiog was an interesting, honest read.
    And Phil Collins – Not Dead Yet is honest and self-deprecating

    And those “lesser known” names usually give a new slant on the oft-told anecdote.
    Ian MacLagen – All The Rage
    James Fearnley – Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues
    (it’s his story of The Pogues)

    Beatles stuff:
    Hunter Davies
    Ian MacDonald – Revolution In The Head
    Pete Dogget – You Never Give Me Your Money

    should cover most bases – supplement with Mark Lewinsohn – Tune In

    Of the many Paul McCartney books around, the best 2 for me are Howard Souness (An Initimate Life) and Paul Du Noyer – Conversations With

    • Seconded (for both). Cosey FT’s book is exceptional. Although I kept wondering why she persevered with such ugly, confrontational and mostly uncommercial art (my opinion). Her dedication to that art and the lifestyle that went with it was truly admirable, not least because of her relationship with the truly loathsome Genesis P-Orridge.

      Other rock bios I’d recommend include One Train Later by Andy Summers and Hell Bent for Leather by Seb Hunter (who was more of a metal fan despite his efforts at becoming a professional musician).

  9. I enjoyed Costello’s book, and he can spin a yarn, but it is quite long and self-regarding. You’ll get more about the day he met Barack Obama than you will on his second marriage.

    I adored Forster’s book, but then I am a huge Go Betweens fan. I devoured it in two sittings.

    Agree with Rigid Digit about Fearnley’s Pogues book – how is McGowan still alive? – but disagree with him on Hooky’s books. Only read the Hacienda one and felt it was in dire need of a ghost writer. Much as I love NO, I couldn’t bring myself to dive into Substance.

    My two recommendations are the ones by Mark Oliver Everett (E from Eels) – a truly extraordinary life – and Luke Haines – bitter, twisted and funny.

  10. Thanks for all this. Keep them coming. I think I’ll definitely go with the Cosey Fanni Tutti and Robert Wyatt books. I skimmed through Welsh for Zen at my local library and earmarked it for later and then it disappeared from their shelves and catalogue. I agree that the Andy Summers One Train Later is a fine read. Has anyone read the Lol Tolhurst or Russel Senior books and what do they reckon.? Oh and another one I’ve just remembered, the Mickey Bradley Undertones book.

    • Micky Bradley’s book was enjoyable.
      Another one of those “not a big name” writers. Had all you look for in a rock book – open, honest and makes you want to go back and listen to the albums again

  11. My standard answer to this question is the first two volumes of Deke Leonard’s autobiographies. Hilarious look at the roots and 70s career of Deke and Man.

  12. My Bass and Other Animals by Guy Pratt is very amusing.

    Enjoyed Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon. The Rod Stewart autobiog also, though I’ve not been a fan since the Faces.

    My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman was interesting.

    I thought the Springsteen book was outstanding, but the audiobook with him reading is even better.

    Big Who fan, but Pete Townsend’s autobiography almost stopped me listening to them again.

      • Guy Pratt’s book is the first one that sprung to my mind too. Very funny storyteller and he played on lots of great records too.

        And I’d add another vote for Pete Doggett’s Beatles book, as well as Jonathan Gould’s Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America. I’ve read dozens of Beatles books over the years, but these two (relatively) recent reads were worthy additions.

  14. Costello’s is a good read – few longeurs particularly in the last third, but some great stuff about his Dad. From the same generation Joe Jackson’s ‘A Cure of Gravity’ if you can get hold of a copy is superb. Tracey Thorn’s Bedsit Disco Queen is equally good.

    • I agree that Joe Jackson’s ‘A Cure of Gravity’ is a cracking good read, covering just his early years, struggling as a pianist in dodgy Portsmouth pubs. I’d be interested if he wrote a follow-up covering the years of success, too – but that might not be as interesting. That’s usually the way with rock biographies …

  16. As I always say when this question is asked: Bill Bruford’s autobiography is one of the most revealing insights into what is like to be a professional musician who has had a taste of fame but is not a household name (peotry). Must give it a third read, it’s that good.

  17. One that always gets a favourable mention here is Geoff Dyer’s “But Beautiful”.
    Not really a biography, but a fairly slim volume of fictionalised biographical sketches, of great American Jazz characters.
    Amazing evocative writing that leaves you with a warm glow. You don’t even need to like jazz to enjoy it.

  18. Boff Whalley’s “Footnote” about the life and times of Chumbawamba is a delight. From squats and grots to world wide number 1 hit single and down again, taking the scenic route of the folk clubs.

  19. I really enjoyed Kim Gordon’s book (and have never listened to a note of their music AFAIK…)
    I’m in a minority of one it seems when it comes to the Julian Cope books. Bought the double volume after years of endless recommendations on Word/Afterword blogs. Couldn’t finish the first one so never got to the second – I found everything about it/him too annoying to waste any more time on, also fearing that if I kept on reading I’d never want to hear his music ever again!

  20. Steve Hanley’s ‘The Big Midweek’, covering life in The Fall, is just a great read, possibly my favourite rock biog.

    Producer/Engineer/mixer books can provide an interesting slant and aren’t so afraid to pull punches as jobbing musicians. In that vein, there’s Phill Brown, Geoff Emerick and Loog Oldham.

    I’d also recommend the 2 Elvis tomes by Peter Guralnick and the 2 most often recommended Fab books (You Never Give Me Your Money and Revolution in the Head) as well as ‘Fab’, the Howard Sounds Macca biog.

    • Yes. I enjoyed that, when it first was published. Long overdue for a re-read.
      I went to a talk by Joe Boyd at the time, in one of the small lecture rooms at The Barbican. A very interesting guy. I noticed Linda Thompson was there in the audience. Probably checking what her old boyfriend had to say about her (nothing but nice things).

  22. Clothes Music Boys by Viv Albertine and Just Kids by Patti Smith are the best I’ve read in recent years. Dear Boy and Stoned as above are great too.

  25. I see that Ian Hunter’s “Dairy of a rock ‘n roll Star” has just been republished. I’ve never read it. It’s supposed to be very good. I trust there are Afterworders who would recommend this particular rock tome…

    • I had a fair sized hissy fit when I noticed that Pledgemusic had run a 500 edition re-print with some additional content for a mere £50. Steep price given I own a fairly tatty original but academic as I saw it too late.

      Pleased to see regular punters can get a copy too from the tax dodgers for around £15. I would recommend it unreservedly.

  26. A Bobcat writes- Ian Bell’s Dylan books are excellent esp if interested in the cultural/ political context of the the times stuff was written.

    The Dylaniologists by David Kinney is a easy and interesting read on serious Dylan obsessives.

    Another up for Geoff Dyer’s short fictional jazz book.

    Dave Simpson’s book on the Fall is an easy read and pretty damn funny.

    Hard to go past Barney Hoskyns Trampled Under Foot for Led Zeppelin.

    Mike Scott’s autobio is great if a Waterboys fan.

    George Cole’s “The Last Miles” is thorough and a bit scholarly but pretty good on late period. Miles. Still on jazz David Hajdu’s “Lush Life is a good book on Billy Strayhorn Duke’s partner on many masterpieces and a great composer in his own right.

  28. Okay people, you are doing well and I think I have my rock biog reading sorted for the next few months if not the next year.. Will probably now also go with Rod Stewart and Mickey Bradley based on recommendations. Also intrigued by Deke Leonard and Bill Buford. As for other recommendations, if I have ignored them it’s because I have already read it. Further questions I have are: Has anyone read the Brett Anderson one, is it as good as the critics say it is ie, up there with the best? I find this hard to believe. Has anyone read Kraftwerk: Publikation and/ or David Stubbs Future Days and what do you think? and lastly what do you reckon are the definitive Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Fall book. Oh and speaking of the Fall, what do people reckon on Brix Start Smith’s tome?

    • Definitive Rolling Stones? You could try Philip Norman’s book or Christopher Sandford’s, or for more colour, “STP”, covering the 1972 tour is brilliant. Bowie, try Paul Trynka’s “Starman” or David Buckley’s “Strange Fascination”

    • As above, I’d go with Hanley. Wolstencroft’s You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide is a good read, bit not in the same class. The Brix book is long and padded with much that is tedious and self-serving; I found Hanley’s perspective far more enjoyable and dry-eyed. Dave Simpson’s book (The Fallen) I found lightweight and unsatisfying. The conceit quickly palls, the tone is flat and he draws little of interest from each interviewee.

      • Yes! I absolutely agree about Simpo’s book. It was an article in The Guardian expanded to book length, but it just doesn’t work. The main problem is that it’s supposed to be one of these books where the journey is just as important as the destination, like Tony Hawks or Dave Gorman, and so it paints the quest to find all former members of The Fall as some kind of all-consuming odyssey which is supposed to have cost the writer his relationship, his health etc.*

        However, it swiftly becomes clear that all he’s really doing is sexing up the original article a bit; in fact, you never get the sense that he’s going out of his way at all. The form dictates that he should, though, so you get these frequent, laughable attempts to big up his quest (“I’ve only just started in my search to find the Fallen and already my eyes are going square from gazing at the internet, my retinas burning from hours poring over album covers.”). Goodness, the sacrifice. At one point he describes Googling Mike Leigh only to get millions of entries about the director — duh — and refers to it as a ‘fiasco’, a major setback. Ditto Chris Evans and Steve Davies. In fact, we get a lot of information about the hardships of Googling. Hardly Coppola-in-the-jungle, is it? He constantly refers to it as ‘taking over his whole life’ when it’s clear it’s doing nothing of the sort. All he’s doing, it seems, is sending off emails and conducting interviews — many of them by phone or email. There’s no question of him going overseas, or even very far out of his way, yet we’re expected to swallow the idea that he’s a man obsessed. ‘Friends are similarly growing used to a weekend chorus of, “I’d like to come out, but I’ve got to to spend all weekend researching people who used to be in the Fall.”‘ That’s called doing your job, Dave.

        Apparently this ‘obsession’ costs Simpson his relationship, but the strife is limited to her being exasperated when he tells her that his day’s work has involved sending 75 emails to former members of the Fall. Why she should be exasperated about this he doesn’t make clear. It’s like the milkman’s wife complaining because her husband’s been delivering milk.

        If you ask me, the mission should have involved *meeting* and having his picture taken with all the former members of the Fall. Then we might be talking ‘quest’. As it is, it’s simply a collection of interviews that he’s tried to embellish as something different. This ‘curse of the Fall’ business is simply laughable. At one point his car stalling a puddle is down to ‘the curse of the Fall’. Groan.

        All of which would be irritating but not book-breaking if it were otherwise well written and the interviews good. But it’s not and they’re not. There are numerous factual errors, plus howlers such as, “Sixteen years ago I interviewed a man called Grant Showbiz… during the interview it transpired that Showbiz often produced or mixed The Fall.” Isn’t that a bit like interviewing Alfred Hitchcock and during the interview it ‘transpiring’ that he directed Rope?

        Added to that it seems that rather than interview them he’s simply put a set of the same questions to each member. Following an interview with Steve Hanley he ponders on why such a talented bassist has never worked elsewhere, yet there’s no evidence he actually put this to Hanley himself. There are countless similar instances. So many times I found myself shouting at the book.

        I enjoyed reading it because I love reading about The Fall but I felt my heart sink as I did so. Normally I really like Simpson’s work, he certainly sounds like one of the good guys and there’s no doubt this is a great idea for a book, but it was badly fluffed there.

        *I’m guessing this was the basis of the proposal.

    • @Stan-Deely Future Days is a very good read, yes. From the known bands to the very obscure.

      For more kraut see also All Gates Open: The Story Of Can by Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt and I Was A Robot by Wolfgang Flur.

    • Haven’t got past the first paragraph of Brix. I’ve read Lol’s book – easy read and very illuminating about the early days of the Cure in particular. Dylan Jones Bowie book really good in spite of the author being a weasly Tory bellend

      David Stubbs ‘Future Days’ is very good, as is his new one ‘Mars by 1980’ about electronic music in general – it’s quite a highbrow read, a big chunk of it is about Futurists and lofty early 20th century composers rather than Soft Cell and OMD but enjoyable nonetheless.

  29. As mentioned above McLagan’s “All the rage” is a very good read as is Kenney Jones’ “Let the good times roll”
    Some of the best that I have read are “No sleep till Canvey Island” by Will Birch, “Rythm Oil” by Stanley Booth is a very good read if the inner pedant can get past the deliberate misspelling of the title though neither of these is a rock biography as such. “Big Man” by Clarence Clemons is a good read too. “Eccentric Man” by Paul Freestone is perhaps the most exhaustive and “stalkery” biography of Tony McPhee from the Groundhogs – on the back cover McPhee says that “Paul knows more about me and the Groundhogs than I do”. One last one – “Riding Shotgun” by Gerry McAvoy is an interesting read about Rory Gallagher and Nine Below Zero’s bassist.

  30. One of the best I’ve ever read! It includes interviews with many friends and collaborators and is one of the most honest book I’ve ever read. WZ told Crystal he wanted nothing left out, so you get the full story!

  31. Jim Dickinson “I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone”: A great read – he was everywhere in the 70s, and there are some great stories from Muscle Schoals (and the Stones recording there), but he has such a sharp and slightly ironic way of writing that even him recounting going up a hill to visit an old bluesman who wants to sell his guitar comes over like one of those deadpan David Lynch scenes.

    And I read Keith Emerson’s “Pictures Of An Exhibitionist” in one go – hysterical and very funny.

  32. I’d recommend Adventures of a Waterboy by Mike Scott as a good read. He’s a good storyteller and it really added to my appreciation of his music. It’s very much about his life in music moreso than a window on his personal life and, for me, that was a good thing.

  34. Chris O’Leary is about to drop his second Bowie tome. I can recommend it as I’ve read most of it on his Bowiesongs blog. This dude goes deep… the entries on the Blackstar songs make Revolution in the Head read like something out of Look-In.

    He’s also bracingly unsentimental – you can read several entries totally oblivious to the fact that O’Leary likes Bowie at all.

  36. I had a copy, since lost, about these guys who toured with Nico. The writer, Nick someone? Ended up becoming a junkie as well. Hilarious. Well, not that he became a junkie, though even that was amusing in the book.

    Anyone know the book?

        • Yes they talked about it in that book about the music press whose name I forget but is excellent too. Apparently NK had bizzare grammar and can’t type so needed serious subbing but he was worth it.

          • Yes, according to Mark Ellen’s autobiography, “Rock Stars Stole My Life”, Kent used to bung Ellen a fiver to type out neatly his scrawl from the back of cornflakes packets.

            Ellen on Kent:

            “He had the crepuscular pallor of a nine-pint donor and legs like a wading bird’s, so stick-thin and rickety you though his legs might bend the wrong way”

  38. The Lol Tolhurst is good and I’ll second the Luke Haines books, about to start Brett Anderson – I like the look of it, brief enough.

    Future Days – very good and his new one Mars Before 1980 – lots to think about in these

  40. Has no one here mentioned Faithful by Marianne Faithful yet? It’s simply the best book about the sixties from someone who was there.

    – it’s hilarious. She’s brilliantly funny throughout. He account of Bob Dylan in London is hysterical.
    – It’s serious. She doesn’t diss anyone. She might be funny about all of them, but she’s also the first to assert “importance.”
    – It’s self deprecating.
    – But she knows her worth. Yes she makes jokes at her own expense except when she doesn’t. And she’s pretty much always right.
    – This being always right? It was hard won.

    Marianne Faithful knows her importance, her unimportance and everyone elses. This book is like spending time in the company of the most brilliant person you will ever meet. I honestly think it’s one of the best books I’ve ever read, never mind best music books. If any Afterword person has not read it, they need to correct this. PRONTO.

  41. I haven’t read Robert Forster’s book and I’m not a fan of the Go-Betweens, but he’s an excellent writer. He used to write reviews and music articles for an Australian periodical The Monthly and they were great – articulate perceptive and well written

  42. I picked up Neil Young’s autobiography off the table at a London mingle. A good read, if a bit full about his undying love for Pegi, whom he dumped shortly afterwards.
    The Sylvie Simmons bio of Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man, is superb.
    I Always Kept a Unicorn, about Sandy Denny is very good.
    For a broader sweep, Electric Eden, about the folk-rock surge of the 60s and 70s onward is good but a little worthy, the author sometimes nailing his colours to less waved flags.
    O, and a shout also for Dennis McNally’s A Long Strange Trip about the Dead.
    I also see No One Gets Out of Here Alive on the shelf, about the Doors. Aeons since I read it. Better than the film that was based on it.

    • Agree about I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn – superb read. Captured the ramshackle world of 60s folk rock and Fairport well and painted a sometimes uncomfortable picture about Sandy Denny’s decline.

  43. Another one not mentioned yet is “In the 60s” by Barry Miles, much of the mid-late 60s from someone who was right in the middle of it. “Hippy hippy shake” by Richard Neville and “Give the anarchist a cigarette” by Mick Farren are excellent too. All rather pleased with themselves but it was a thrilling period to be in the middle of so I think we can excuse a bit of self satisfaction.

      • Andrew Greenaway’s book covering the travesty of the 1988 tour, ‘Zappa the Hard Way’ is a great read, but I would agree that no career spanning tome does the Z man justice.

        • Have to check that one out.
          That final-straw tour was a strange one, with the entire brass section, the drummer and the percussionist all demanding that the bassist (also concertmaster) be replaced, mid-tour.
          Maybe Dweezil or Moon will write the definitive tome one day. Could be a good movie in it.

          • I found it fascinating. Thunes was such an odd choice for ‘clonemeister’ – abrasive, short tempered, bone dry, yet I found myself taking his side over Ed Mann and the others who stoked grievances and bad behaviour.

            Some of the Zappa kids seem to have mixed feelings about their upbringing. Would be fascinating, but likely to upset the delicate family apple cart once more.

  44. I’ve always thought that the first two-thirds of my book ‘Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond’ (that subtitle was very carefully chosen – the clue here being the middle bit of it) would appeal to many more people than have acquired a copy. It’s basically ‘London in the 60s’ – pop package tours, the R&B boom, the Flamingo, pop sessions, modern jazz, Ready Steady Go!, free improv, frissons of the Beatles, the Stones, Cream et al. making cameo appearances… McLaughlin passed through so many scenes it was an opportunity to expand the lens widely and write about them.

    Hubris not intended – borrow a copy from a library if it sounds interesting. 🙂

    • Read it twice over the past couple of years and it still makes me laugh out loud.
      As someone who had my fair share of erm, hygene issues in my younger days, the “Dettol” episode made me wince.

      If you are piqued enough to buy the reissued album, plum for the expanded CD….their version of
      Little ‘Ol Wine Drinker is bloody ace.

      Theres also a couple of vids on Youtube worth a looksee.

  47. I also devour rock autobiographies. Recent ones I’ve liked: Wilko Johnson, Chrissy Hynde, and as already mentioned Lol Tolhurst and Viv Albertine. One that I found a bit disappointing was Chris Difford’s. He is very stilted, which is odd given that he was the lyricist. But worth for that time he was Brian Ferry’s gofer. Dave Stewart’s autobiography is unintentionally funny, he’s the Tony Blair of music. Oh and Jonny Marr’s book is great.

  48. @Stan-Deely (and everyone else looking for good rock autobiographies) – I’m reading Jeff Tweedy’s “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)” at the moment and I highly recommend it! He’s a great writer and often laugh-out-loud funny, and he writes about music and wanting to be a musician in a way that any music fan can relate to (even those who simply can’t understand that Jeff Tweedy Is God 🙂 )
    I’m still just half-way through (started reading it yesterday) but I’m loving it so far. It has a nice structure and flow to it, it’s not one of those dull laundry list type of bios.
    Ask Santa to put this in your stocking and have a Happy New Year!

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