16 Best biography books like Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal by Michael Hann

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Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

By: Michael Hann

4.21

Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition

In the late 1970s, aggressive, young bands are forming across Britain. Independent labels are sprin…

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1. Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

By: Mark Yarm

4.27

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. The Stone Angel

By: Margaret Laurence , Adele Wiseman

3.77

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

The Stone Angel , The Diviners , and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret La… read more

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"Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg."

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

"Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young."

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

"Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to."

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

"I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'…"

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

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3. Two Serious Ladies

By: Jane Bowles

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Eccentric, adventurous Christina Goering Meets the anxious but equally enterprising Mrs. Copperfiel… read more

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4. Gotham Central, Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty

By: Ed Brubaker , Greg Rucka , Michael Lark

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Meet Gotham's Finest. Living in the shadows of the Dark Knight makes the detectives of Gotham's pol… read more

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5. 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
  • biography
  • 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
  • biography
  • nonfiction

7. Lords of the North (The Saxon Stories, #3)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.90

Format: 15 pages,

The Lords of the North begins soon after the events described in The Pale Horseman. Uhtred, having … read more

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8. Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders i… read more

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9. Bournville

By: Jonathan Coe

3.81

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more

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10. Spaceships Over Glasgow

By: Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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12. Sonic Life: A Memoir

By: Thurston Moore

3.81

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

By: Matt Ruff

3.94

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

“Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”— … read more

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14. The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop

By: Jonathan Abrams

4.21

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reig… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. 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

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Small Town Horror

By: Ronald Malfi

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Five childhood friends are forced to confront their own dark past as well as the curse placed upon … read more

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17. The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

By: Matthew Gabriele

3.65

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A lively and magisterial popular history that refutes common misperceptions of the European Middle … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. 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
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records

By: Jim Ruland

4.03

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker D… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present

By: J.R. Moores

3.92

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From Black Sabbath to Big Black, a ride through the evolution, diversity, and influence of genre-de… read more

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

21. 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
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"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

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22. 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
  • nonfiction
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23. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

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24. Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America’s Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

By: Mick Wall

3.89

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel C… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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25. Biblical: Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures

By: Rob Halford

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Metal God, himself, Rob Halford—lead vocalist of Judas Priest and author of the critically accl… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer’s Life in Music

By: Ted Templeman

4.23

Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition

Crafting smash hits with Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Nicolette Larson, and Van Morrison, legend… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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27. Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

By: Michael Hann

4.21

Format: 526 pages, Kindle Edition

In the late 1970s, aggressive, young bands are forming across Britain. Independent labels are sprin… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

28. Before We Was We: Madness by Madness

By: Mike Barson

4.26

Format: None pages, ebook

New Foreword by Irvine Welsh.In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of s… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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29. Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain

By: Ed Gillett

4.17

Format: 518 pages, Kindle Edition

'[An] excellent history of UK dance culture' – Sunday TimesFrom the illicit reggae blues dances and… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. Born Again!

By: Martin Popoff

3.94

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

First there was Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the Seventies, in which Martin Popoff tells the tale of … read more

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  • music
  • biography
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31. Nothin' But a Good Time: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Glam Metal

By: Justin Quirk

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From 1983 until 1991, Glam Metal was the sound of American culture. Big hair, massive amplifiers, d… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

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3.81

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