The Stone Roses: War and Peace
6 best books like The Stone Roses: War and Peace (Simon Spence): Life, Kill Your Friends, Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994, Coal Black Mornings, The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
| Author | Keith Richards |
| ISBN | 0297854399 |
Keith Richards was a clever kid, a talented artist, a choirboy who sang for the Queen and became an outstanding musician in one of the world's best bands. What is most on display in this book is his tremendous interest in music and musicians, not in rock, bands, money and fame - a lot of which he finds a bit...
It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-burying-him-alive-and-taking-out-every-motherfucker-the-dog-has-ever-known.
Meet Steven Stelfox.
London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop...
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994
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...
| Author | Brett Anderson |
| ISBN | 1408710501 |
Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Mornings he traces the journey that took him from a childhood as 'a snotty, sniffy, slightly maudlin sort of boy raised on Salad Cream and milky tea and cheap meat' to becoming founder and lead singer of Suede.
Anderson...
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...
| Author | Peter Biskind |
| ISBN | 0684857081 |
However much is true, however much really happened that way, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How The Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind remains one of my favorite non-fiction reads. For those who hear "film history" and think Titanic, in 1967, the major American film studios...
