19 must-read nonfiction books like Gary Moore: The Official Biography by Harry Shapiro

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Gary Moore: The Official Biography

By: Harry Shapiro

4.16

Format: 520 pages, Kindle Edition

"Gary Moore is definitely in my list of top five guitar influences, right up there with Jimi Hendri…

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Cover of Slash by Anthony Bozza, Slash

1. Slash

By: Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Format: 458 pages, Hardcover

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and r… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. The guitar is my conscience, too - whenever I've lost my way, i…"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when …"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

Cover of Jakthundene (William Wisting, #8) by Jørn Lier Horst

2. Jakthundene (William Wisting, #8)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

4.07

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

William Wisting suspenderes og settes selv under etterforskning mistenkt for å ha fabrikkert bevis.… read more

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3. What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography

By: Bruce Dickinson

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER A long-awaited memoir from the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalis… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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4. Hot Wired Guitar: The Life of Jeff Beck

By: Martin J. Power

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of Jeff Beck's journey from his childhood in 1940s South London to the world… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

5. Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar

By: Carlos Santana , Brad Tolinski , Alan di Perna

3.00

Format: None pages,

By a pair of veteran music writers, an unprecedented history of the electric guitar, its explosive … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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6. Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath

By: Tony Iommi , None

3.71

Format: 160 pages,

Iron Manchronicles the story of both pioneering guitarist Tony Iommi and legendary band Black Sabba… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

7. Blindgang (William Wisting #10)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Hummel-saken har plaget William Wisting i over et halvt ar. Etterforskningen av hva som skjedde da … read more

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8. 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
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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

9. Closed for Winter (William Wisting #7)

By: Jørn Lier Horst , Anne Bruce

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The second William Wisting mystery to be translated into English, after the successful Dregs. Ove B… read more

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10. Hulemannen (William Wisting #9)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Denne gangen kommer doden til Wistings eget nabolag. Bare tre hus bortenfor politimannens hjem har … read more

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11. Cowboy Song: The Authorised Biography of Philip Lynott

By: Graeme Thomson

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first biography to be written with the cooperation of the Lynott Estate, Cowboy Song is the def… read more

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12. Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century

By: Charles Shaar Murray

3.94

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

With John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bl… read more

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13. Play On: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac: The Autobiography

By: Mick Fleetwood

3.82

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

"After forty-six years of being on the road, this is the right time to look back in a way I've neve… read more

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14. The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll

By: Ian S. Port

4.31

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

“A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history” ( The New York Times Book Review ), … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Arr (Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, #4) by Jørn Lier Horst

16. Arr (Alexander Blix & Emma Ramm, #4)

By: Jørn Lier Horst

4.13

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Alexander Blix er en slagen mann. Etter å ha blitt dømt for å ha hevnet datterens død, er han plass… read more

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Cover of Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob  Wilkins

17. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

By: Rob Wilkins

4.68

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21) by John Connolly

18. The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

By: John Connolly

4.44

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, the beloved and… read more

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"You didn’t have to look very hard to be disappointed by human beings. We were not all bad, just enough of us, although the rest had to work very hard to make up for that minority."

-John Connolly, The Instruments of Darkness (Charlie Parker, #21)

Cover of Wham! George & Me by Andrew Ridgeley

19. 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

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. Perfect Little Children

By: Sophie Hannah

3.45

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

All Beth has to do is drive her son to his Under-14s away match, watch him play, and bring him home… read more

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21. The Lives of Brian

By: Brian Johnson

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Brian Johnson’s memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately repla… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Blood Debt (Victor the Assassin, #11) by Tom  Wood

22. Blood Debt (Victor the Assassin, #11)

By: Tom Wood

4.41

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

They want an eye for an eye. He'll fight until the last drop is spilled.The incredible latest novel… read more

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Cover of All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles by Peter Brown

23. All You Need Is Love: An Oral History of The Beatles

By: Peter Brown

3.53

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

The Beatles in their own words: unpublished, unvarnished, and told by The Beatles and their inner c… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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24. Charlie's Good Tonight

By: Paul Sexton

4.12

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by Daniel de Visé

25. King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King

By: Daniel de Visé

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

"No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spre… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond by Geezer Butler

26. Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

By: Geezer Butler

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A rollicking, effusive, and candid memoir by the heavy metal musician and founding member of Black … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Being in Black Sabbath felt like being an actor in a soap opera. It’s a minor miracle all four of the original lineup survived beyond the 1970s, let alone that we’re all still here. Along the way, we…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

"Writing was my godsend, my treatment, my way of digging myself out of a depressive hole. That’s not an outlet a lot of working-class kids had. But because I’d been exposed to books from an early age,…"

-Geezer Butler, Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath―And Beyond

Cover of Gary Moore: The Official Biography by Harry Shapiro

27. Gary Moore: The Official Biography

By: Harry Shapiro

4.16

Format: 520 pages, Kindle Edition

"Gary Moore is definitely in my list of top five guitar influences, right up there with Jimi Hendri… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983 by Richard Evans

28. Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978-1983

By: Richard Evans

3.93

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Listening to the Music the Machines Make is the enthralling, explosive story of electronic pop betw… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
Cover of Where’s My Guitar?: An Inside Story of British Rock and Roll by Bernie Marsden

29. Where’s My Guitar?: An Inside Story of British Rock and Roll

By: Bernie Marsden

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

‘A page turner…and then some!’ Chris Evans ‘An absorbing memoir.’ Classic Rock Magazine ‘A very e… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Joe Walsh: From the James Gang to the Eagles by Nick Thomas

30. Joe Walsh: From the James Gang to the Eagles

By: Nick Thomas

4.41

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the first biography of Joe Walsh, from his days in the James Gang to his membership in the … read more

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Cover of Peter Green: Founder of Fleetwood Mac by Martin Celmins

31. Peter Green: Founder of Fleetwood Mac

By: Martin Celmins

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Revised and updated, this is the second edition of Celmins' much acclaimed biography, charting the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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4.20

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Martin J. Power

4.56

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3.71

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3.69

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4.00

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4.38

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4.04

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