11 Top autobiography books like Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson

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Coal Black Mornings

By: Brett Anderson

4.19

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Morni…

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1. Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography

By: Alex James

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For Alex James, music had always been a door to a more exciting life—a way to travel, meet new peop… read more

Similar categories in Alex James's Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. 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 Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Suede: Love and Poison: The Authorised Biography

By: David Barnett

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

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

By: Louise Wener

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a story of an ordinary girl's transformation from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-… read more

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5. Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division

By: Deborah Curtis , Jon Savage

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is an account of the mesmerising life and tragic death of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Divis… read more

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6. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

By: Viv Albertine

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"It’s true the good die young."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

"I think most people in long marriages have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome"

-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

7. Britpop!: Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock

By: John Harris

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment … read more

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8. Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

By: Peter Hook

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of alternative rock, they reinvented music in th… read more

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9. The Ghost Theatre

By: Mat Osman

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A wild and hallucinatory reimagining of Elizabethan London, with its bird worshippers, famed child … read more

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  • british literature
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10. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • british literature
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11. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

By: Mark Lanegan

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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12. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

Similar categories in Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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13. Verse, Chorus, Monster!

By: Graham Coxon

3.70

Format: None pages, ebook

Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a… read more

Similar categories in Graham Coxon's Verse, Chorus, Monster! book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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14. Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT

By: Trevor Horn

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. … read more

Similar categories in Trevor Horn's Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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15. A Likely Lad

By: Pete Doherty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his d… read more

Similar categories in Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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16. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

By: Miki Berenyi

4.46

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson

17. Coal Black Mornings

By: Brett Anderson

4.19

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Morni… read more

Similar categories in Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • coming of age
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • music biography
  • nonfiction
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18. Tenement Kid

By: Bobby Gillespie

4.02

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more

Similar categories in Bobby Gillespie's Tenement Kid book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

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19. Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars

By: Nick Duerden

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as… read more

Similar categories in Nick Duerden's Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
  • biography
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • music biography
  • nonfiction
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20. So it started there

By: Nick Banks

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

So It Started There chronicles the life and career of drummer Nick Banks, and how he came to be in … read more

Similar categories in Nick Banks's So it started there book and Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings

  • music
Cover of Withdrawn Traces: Searching for the Truth about Richey Manic by Sara Hawys Roberts

21. Withdrawn Traces: Searching for the Truth about Richey Manic

By: Sara Hawys Roberts

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From despair, to where? On 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction

13 must-read nonfiction books like Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson

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Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography

Alex James

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Set the Boy Free

Johnny Marr

2.50

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Viv Albertine

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

Mark Lanegan

4.35

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Transform Your Habits

Telling Stories

Tim Burgess

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Macrofestivales: El agujero negro de la música

Nando Cruz

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore

3.81

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