18 Top biography memoir books like Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story by Stephen Davis

Cover of Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story by Stephen Davis

Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

By: Stephen Davis

3.59

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Lifelong fans and interested newcomers will love this stunning biography of Duran Duran by the best…

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1. You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

By: Susannah Gora

3.87

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

You can quote lines from Sixteen Candles (“Last night at the dance, my little brother paid a buck t… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Gora's You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Not Dead Yet: The Memoir by Phil Collins

2. Not Dead Yet: The Memoir

By: Phil Collins

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Phil Collins pulls no punches--about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that's inspir… read more

Similar categories in Phil Collins's Not Dead Yet: The Memoir book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys by Lol Tolhurst

3. Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

By: Lol Tolhurst

4.16

Format: 1342 pages, Hardcover

"On our first day of school, Robert and I stood at the designated stop at Hevers Avenue with our mo… read more

Similar categories in Lol Tolhurst's Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Set the Boy Free

By: Johnny Marr

2.50

Format: 32 pages, ebook

The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The … read more

Similar categories in Johnny Marr's Set the Boy Free book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran

By: Andy Taylor

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Wild Boy is the explosive first inside account of the rise and fall of Duran Duran. The band rose t… read more

Similar categories in Andy Taylor's Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock by Sammy Hagar

6. Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock

By: Sammy Hagar

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sammy Hagar--legendary lead singer of Van Halen, founder of the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, and one of… read more

Similar categories in Sammy Hagar's Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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7. Testimony: A Memoir

By: Robbie Robertson

3.65

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the most spellbinding, entertaining, major books of the fall: the long-awaited memoir from t… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Robertson's Testimony: A Memoir book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

8. In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran

By: Nigel John Taylor

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

John Taylor, Duran Duran's co-founder, takes the reader on a wild ride through his life. From the e… read more

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9. Cuatro amigos

By: David Trueba

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detras del desmadrado viaje de vacaciones de cuatro amigos veinteaneros, se esconde una historia de… read more

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10. Here We Go Again: My Life In Television

By: Betty White

3.80

Format: 281 pages,

A MEMOIR OF BETTY WHITE'S FIRST FIVE DECADES ON TELEVISION--AS IRREVERENT AND IRRESISTIBLE AS THE B… read more

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11. I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

By: Craig Marks , Rob Tannenbaum

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

Remember the first time you saw Michael Jackson dance with zombies in "Thriller"? Diamond Dave kara… read more

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12. Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

By: Moby , Jonathan Bernstein , None , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Mad Worldis a highly entertaining oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the… read more

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13. Brat: An '80s Story

By: Andrew McCarthy

3.61

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew McCarthy's Brat: An '80s Story book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Wham! George & Me

By: Andrew Ridgeley

4.04

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Celebrate 40 years of WHAM! with the Sunday Times bestseller from one half of the world's most famo… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Ridgeley's Wham! George & Me book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

15. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

Similar categories in Nick de Semlyen's The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

16. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

Similar categories in Warren Zanes's Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Cover of Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina by Chris Frantz

17. Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

By: Chris Frantz

3.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Chris Frantz’s memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-lon… read more

Similar categories in Chris Frantz's Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Without adventures, we won’t have stories."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

"...the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

Cover of Dying of Politeness: A Memoir by Geena Davis

18. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

By: Geena Davis

4.04

Format: None pages, Audio CD

None read more

Similar categories in Geena Davis's Dying of Politeness: A Memoir book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Face It

By: Debbie Harry

3.61

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive … read more

Similar categories in Debbie Harry's Face It book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To this day, when the band separates at the airport and we all go our different ways, I still get that gut reaction. Separation. I hate parting with people and i hate goodbyes."

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"I would just walk around, not looking for anything particular, looking for everything really, and ingesting and digesting it all. Art, music, theater, poetry, and the sense that everything was up for…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"Coincidence: it's supposed to mean just these random, disconnected events that concur or collide. But coincidence is not that at all. It's the stuff that's meant to be. Things that are supposed to be…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

"I wanted to be platinum blond. On our black-and-white television and at the theater where they screened technicolor movies, there was something about platinum hair that was so luminescent and excitin…"

-Debbie Harry, Face It

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20. Karma: My Autobiography

By: Boy George

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more

Similar categories in Boy George's Karma: My Autobiography book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Edmondson's Berserker! book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Still Alright: A Memoir by Kenny Loggins

22. Still Alright: A Memoir

By: Kenny Loggins

3.81

Format: None pages, Audiobook

You know Kenny Loggins for his megahit soundtrack themes and chart-topping collaborations. Now you … read more

Similar categories in Kenny Loggins's Still Alright: A Memoir book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour

23. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion

By: Tom Beaujour

4.07

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more

Similar categories in Tom Beaujour's Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story by Stephen Davis

24. Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

By: Stephen Davis

3.59

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Lifelong fans and interested newcomers will love this stunning biography of Duran Duran by the best… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • collections
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Beautiful Ones by Prince

25. The Beautiful Ones

By: Prince

3.78

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more

Similar categories in Prince's The Beautiful Ones book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."

-Prince, The Beautiful Ones

"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"

-Prince, The Beautiful Ones

Cover of Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock by Steven Hyden

26. Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

By: Steven Hyden

3.93

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening explo… read more

Similar categories in Steven Hyden's Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Just try to find an uncompelling photo of Fleetwood Mac taken at any point between 1975 and 1987. I've spent hours scouring Google Images in search of a single Fleetwood Mac band photo to which I am …"

-Steven Hyden, Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

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27. What About Men?

By: Caitlin Moran

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Moran's What About Men? book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"

-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?

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28. The Princess Spy

By: Larry Loftis

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she woul… read more

Similar categories in Larry Loftis's The Princess Spy book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones

29. Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground

By: Dylan Jones

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, an… read more

Similar categories in Dylan Jones's Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Ticket to the World: My 80s Story by Martin  Kemp

30. Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

By: Martin Kemp

3.96

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of… read more

Similar categories in Martin Kemp's Ticket to the World: My 80s Story book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

31. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Stephen Davis's Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

  • british literature

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Transform Your Habits

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

Susannah Gora

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Not Dead Yet: The Memoir

Phil Collins

3.77

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Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys

Lol Tolhurst

4.16

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Johnny Marr

2.50

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Bernie Taupin

3.58

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Barbra Streisand

4.20

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Boy George

3.62

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Mary Gabriel

4.03

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