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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,973 ratings — published 2014
Clapton: The Autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,883 ratings — published 2007
'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.82 — 877 ratings — published 1981
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 50,552 ratings — published 2001
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 381,596 ratings — published 2010
I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.98 — 238 ratings — published 2025
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,792 ratings — published 2026
Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 373 ratings — published 2017
A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,113 ratings — published 2007
The Uncool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,533 ratings — published 2025
Last Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,906 ratings — published 2025
Heartbreaker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.71 — 2,584 ratings — published 2025
Salad Daze (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.35 — 150 ratings — published
Not Dead and Not for Sale (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.57 — 3,032 ratings — published 2011
Testimony: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,346 ratings — published 2016
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell: The Dangerous Glitter of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 219 ratings — published 2009
Lonely Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,086 ratings — published 2017
Downstrokes and Discord: Secret Johnny Ramone (Babysitting the Ramones Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
This Boy: The Early Lives of John Lennon & Paul McCartney (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.91 — 255 ratings — published
The Beatles: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,632 ratings — published 2005
A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.88 — 831 ratings — published 2014
Are you ready Steve? (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 38 ratings — published
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,949,335 ratings — published 2019
Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.34 — 10,590 ratings — published 2018
The Secret DJ (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.77 — 428 ratings — published 2017
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,940 ratings — published 2016
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell: A shocking, candid memoir tracing Marilyn Manson's rise from frightened Christian schoolboy to feared rock superstar (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.81 — 32,542 ratings — published 1998
We Are The Road Crew (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.15 — 54 ratings — published 2009
Rock Stars Boxed Set: Murder, Manslaughter and Misadventure: The Lives and Deaths of John Lennon, Michael Jackson & Elvis Presley (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.07 — 27 ratings — published 2012
Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,274 ratings — published 2007
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.27 — 13,862 ratings — published 2014
Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,189 ratings — published 2017
Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,491 ratings — published 2000
Bolan: The Rise and Fall of a 20th Century Superstar (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 146 ratings — published 2003
My Bloody Roots (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.91 — 466 ratings — published 2013
Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,342 ratings — published 2012
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,383 ratings — published 1994
Mick Jagger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,773 ratings — published 2012
Slash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,292 ratings — published 2007
Doolittle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.80 — 983 ratings — published 2006
Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.90 — 99,758 ratings — published 2010
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,457 ratings — published 2001
A Drink With Shane MacGowan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,273 ratings — published 2001
Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,429 ratings — published 1997
I Am Ozzy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 36,742 ratings — published 2009
Scar Tissue (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 105,165 ratings — published 2004
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 40,132 ratings — published 2007
Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,239 ratings — published 1994
No One Here Gets Out Alive (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 46,991 ratings — published 1980
Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as rock-biography)
avg rating 3.98 — 614 ratings — published 2001