Coal Black Mornings

8 best books like Coal Black Mornings (Brett Anderson): The Offing, Renegade, Suede: Love and Poison: The Authorised Biography, Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994, David Bowie: A Life, To Throw Away Unopened, Different for Girls: A Girl's Own True-life Adventures in Pop, Then It Fell Apart

The Offing

Author	Benjamin Myers
ISBN	1526611317

After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that it brings with it. Poetry, perhaps, and a good glass of wine. A nice meal. Nature. Love, if you're lucky.

One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham...

Renegade

Author	Mark E. Smith
ISBN	0670916749

Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the proper one’ Mark E. Smith Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music — odd, spare, cranky and circular — an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The...

Suede: Love and Poison: The Authorised Biography

Author	David Barnett
ISBN	0233000941

When they appeared on the British rock scene in the early 1990s—a bastard fusion of the Smiths and Ziggy Stardust—some called them “The Best New Band in Britain.” At the time, the group—based around flamboyant vocalist Brett Anderson and guitarist Bernard Butler—hadn’t released...

Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994

Author

David Hepworth

The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.

What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting...

David Bowie: A Life

Author

Dylan Jones

Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic...

To Throw Away Unopened

Author	Viv Albertine
ISBN	0571326234

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018

What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.

Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine...

Different for Girls: A Girl's Own True-life Adventures in Pop

Author	Louise Wener
ISBN	0091936519

This is a story of an ordinary girl's transformation from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set pop goddess. It's about the embarrassments of growing up and experimenting with who you are and how pop music is both the comic and life-affirming soundtrack that runs through it all.

Different...

Then It Fell Apart

Author	Moby
ISBN	0571339409

*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'*

What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark...