25 best-selling nonfiction books like A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man by Pete Way

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A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man

By: Pete Way

4.05

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

'They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I'm out of my league.' - Ozzy OsbourneThere are ro…

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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
  • autobiography
  • 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

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2. Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

By: Chrissie Hynde

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders,… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"After writing a song, there’s first a feeling of elation followed by the sinking feeling that it will never happen again, and you go back to thinking that you can't do it. It creates an ongoing feeli…"

-Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

"To address another human was one thing, but a singing voice was capable of so much more. Romance made you weak and love was about suffering. I wanted what the jazz musicians were looking for: the sup…"

-Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

"Nothing was going to compromise my freedom to walk the streets whenever, wherever and with whomever I wanted. I saw fame as being akin to living in a high-security prison and I didn’t want to go ther…"

-Chrissie Hynde, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Cover of Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen by None

3. Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen

By: None

3.84

Format: 352 pages,

read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Bringing Metal to the Children: The Complete Berserker's Guide to World Tour Domination by Eric Hendrikx, Zakk Wylde

4. Bringing Metal to the Children: The Complete Berserker's Guide to World Tour Domination

By: Eric Hendrikx , Zakk Wylde

3.90

Format: 49 pages, ebook

Bringing Metal to the Childrenis a handbook to all things Heavy Metal, brought to you by insane pra… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money

By: J.M.R. Higgs , John Higgs

3.32

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

They were the best-selling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial succ… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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6. My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses

By: None , Steven Adler , Lawrence J. Spagnola

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Steven Adler, the original drummer for Guns N' Roses, comes My Appetite for Destruction, the i… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain

7. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

By: Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain

4.19

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

A Time Out and Daily News Top Ten Book of the Year upon its initial release, Please Kill Me is the … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Bob Gruen: La gente veniva da noi per farsi mordere, non per farsi accarezzare."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Penny Arcade said: At that time, the DRUG world and the ART world ran through each other. (1971 - 1974)"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge."

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

"Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!"

-Legs McNeil, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

8. White Line Fever: The Autobiography

By: Lemmy Kilmister , Janiss Garza

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

One of music's most notorious frontmen leads a headbanging, voyeuristic odyssey into sex, drugs, an… read more

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9. 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
  • autobiography
  • 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

10. The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

By: Nikki Sixx

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of Motley Crue offers an… read more

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11. Girl in a Band

By: Kim Gordon

3.67

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."

-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

12. 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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13. 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
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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14. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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15. 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

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"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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16. 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

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3) by C.K. McDonnell

17. Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)

By: C.K. McDonnell

4.39

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Love can be a truly terrible thing.Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one o… read more

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"It flicked through all the channels until it found a repeat of the 1990s show in which people in swimwear saved other people from drowning by running in slow motion towards them"

-C.K. McDonnell, Love Will Tear Us Apart (Stranger Times, #3)

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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
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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19. Acid for the Children

By: Flea

4.08

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Bein famous don't mean shit"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

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20. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)

By: Serj Tankian

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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21. Under Fortunate Stars

By: Ren Hutchings

3.93

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's f… read more

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Cover of Adrift: America in 100 Charts by Scott Galloway

22. Adrift: America in 100 Charts

By: Scott Galloway

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examinatio… read more

Similar categories in Scott Galloway's Adrift: America in 100 Charts book and Pete Way's A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man

  • nonfiction
Cover of Devil in a Coma by Mark Lanegan

23. Devil in a Coma

By: Mark Lanegan

3.92

Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition

One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was n… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I didn't leave a trace of myself with them, but they stained me."

-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

"I've never gone to bed with any monsters, I only woke up with a few dozen or so."

-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

"To avoid paying debts is to ask for trouble, I've learned that much in my time here."

-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

"Each and every time I walked out into the dark, I only ever came part of the way back."

-Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

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24. 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
  • autobiography
  • 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 Confess: The Autobiography by Rob Halford

25. Confess: The Autobiography

By: Rob Halford

4.40

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The legendary frontman of Judas Priest, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, c… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Outbreak (Luke Carlton #3) by Frank   Gardner

26. Outbreak (Luke Carlton #3)

By: Frank Gardner

3.97

Format: 459 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep within the Arctic Circle, three scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge throug… read more

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27. 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
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America’s Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare by Mick Wall

28. 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
Cover of Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest by K.K. Downing

29. Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest

By: K.K. Downing

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Get a backstage pass and see Judas Priest like you’ve never seen them before in this electrifying m… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man by Pete Way

30. A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man

By: Pete Way

4.05

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

'They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I'm out of my league.' - Ozzy OsbourneThere are ro… read more

Similar categories in Pete Way's A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man book and Pete Way's A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man

  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard by Dan Franklin

31. Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard

By: Dan Franklin

4.18

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

For over 25 years, Electric Wizard have been gathering the masses around them as one of the largest… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

22 must-read biography books like A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man by Pete Way

Transform Your Habits

Slash

Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Chrissie Hynde

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen

None

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Bringing Metal to the Children: The Complete Berserker's Guide to World Tour Domination

Eric Hendrikx , Zakk Wylde

3.90

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16 best-selling nonfiction books like Devil in a Coma by Mark Lanegan

Transform Your Habits

Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

Mark Yarm

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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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