Head-On/Repossessed

7 best books like Head-On/Repossessed (Julian Cope): Cider With Roadies, Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic, Renegade, Margrave of the Marshes, The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club, Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt, Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance

Cider With Roadies

Author	Stuart Maconie
ISBN	0091897459

Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework...

Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

Author	Jim DeRogatis
ISBN	0767905091

Let it Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder or wrote better–more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the...

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...

Margrave of the Marshes

Author	John Peel
ISBN	0552551198

Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his widely popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection. He was a genuinely great Briton, beloved by millions. John's unique...

The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

Author	Peter Hook
ISBN	1847371353

The Legendary musician and cofounder of Joy Division and New Order tells the whole story—the fun, the music, the vast loss of money, the legacy—of Manchester's most iconic nightclub
 
Peter Hook has been shaping the course of popular music for 30 years. He provided the propulsive...

Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt

Author	Marcus O'Dair
ISBN	1846687594

This is the first and definitive biography of Robert Wyatt, Britain's greatest cult musician. Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with the Pink Floyd and toured America with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a Bohemian and jazz outlook to...

Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance

Author	Johnny Rogan
ISBN	0711930007

This book is hugely overrated. The two stars I've given it are purely because The Smiths are great and their story is great but if you've obsessively read all of the Smiths-related articles and interviews on the internet, there is no point in reading this at all unless you desperately desire information...