17 Best autobiography books like This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx by Nikki Sixx

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This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx

By: Nikki Sixx

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Few of us have experienced life with the intensity, fury, and reckless abandon of Nikki Sixx, the w…

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1. Tommyland

By: Tommy Lee , Anthony Bozza

3.69

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller in which rock and roll's most notorious bad boy bar… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"One day, after practice, he came up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder, and as I turned around, he sucker-punched me and relocated my nose to the other side of my face. What up, Mr. Drum Captain? H…"

-Tommy Lee, Tommyland

"If you show up late [for anger management], you don't get credit for the class, which made that car ride even more of a test of your temper. Being late was great-you could leave if you wanted to, but…"

-Tommy Lee, Tommyland

" Pamela Anderson : 'He called and called, leaving about twenty messages, just drunk dialing. One of them was him singing his version of the Oscar Mayer theme song: "My baloney has a first name, it's …"

-Tommy Lee, Tommyland

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2. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"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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3. Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen

By: Vince Neil , Mike Sager

3.41

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

"So where do we start? I remember when we did The Dirt, the Mötley Crüe book, I was interviewed at … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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4. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

By: Michael Azerrad

4.22

Format: 522 pages, Paperback

This is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that happened right under the nose of… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spir…"

-Michael Azerrad, Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

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5. Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

By: Jon Wiederhorn , Katherine Turman

3.91

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

The definitive oral history of heavy metal, Louder Than Hell includes hundreds of interviews with m… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I remember Devo were playing at the Whisky and they came to our show at the STarwood. I asked them why and they said, "We love Dokken because you're the epitome of what we don't want to be." I didn't…"

-Jon Wiederhorn, Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

"I grew up being told, "If you do marijuana you'll be a slave for the rest of your life," and it only took me ten minutes to realize smoking marijuana was pretty cool. Then it was, "If you take LSD yo…"

-Jon Wiederhorn, Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

"I grew up being told, "If you do marijuana you'll be a slave for the rest of your life," and it only took me ten minutes to realize smoking marijuana was pretty cool. Then it was, "If you take LSD yo…"

-Jon Wiederhorn, Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

"When we were recording the Ozzmosis album we did a batch of it in New York. There was this occult bookstore...and they had everything in there on Wicca, Catholicism, Satanism, the whole nine yards. I…"

-Jon Wiederhorn, Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal

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6. High on Arrival

By: Mackenzie Phillips

3.82

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

The eldest daughter of John Phillips and stepdaughter of Michelle Phillips, both lead singers of th… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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7. The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

By: Neil Strauss , Marilyn Manson

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

The 150,000-copy national bestselling autobiography of Marilyn Manson, America's most controversial… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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8. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

By: Tommy Lee , Neil Strauss , Vince Neil , Nikki Sixx , None

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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9. Almost Interesting

By: David Spade

4.03

Format: 96 pages, ebook

A hilarious and biting memoir from the actor, comedian and Saturday Night Livealumni David Spade. D… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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10. 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
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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11. Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana

By: Michael Azerrad

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album Neve… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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12. This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx

By: Nikki Sixx

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Few of us have experienced life with the intensity, fury, and reckless abandon of Nikki Sixx, the w… read more

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  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • photography
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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13. I Am Ozzy

By: Ozzy Osbourne , Chris Ayres

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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14. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

By: Charles R. Cross

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure a… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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15. Love Life

By: Rob Lowe

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Rob Lowe is back with stories he only tells his best friends. When Rob Lowe's first book was publis… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. KISS and Make-up

By: Gene Simmons

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You wanted the truth, you got the truth--the hottest book in the world! Fueled by an explosive mix … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses by None, Steven Adler, Lawrence J. Spagnola

17. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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18. Hammer of the Gods

By: Stephen Davis

4.00

Format: 205 pages,

Led Zeppelin was the hottest, hardest, horniest, most hedonistic group in rock history. Their parti… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

19. I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax

By: Scott Ian

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I'm the Manis the fast-paced, humorous, and revealing memoir from the man who co-founded Anthrax, t… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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20. Face the Music: A Life Exposed

By: Paul Stanley

4.06

Format: None pages, ebook

In Face the Music, Paul Stanley--the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS--reveals fo… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

21. 18 and Life on Skid Row

By: Sebastian Bach

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

In this uncensored, unfiltered memoir, the musician and former front man for Skid Row tells the sto… read more

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22. 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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23. Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?

By: Steven Tyler

3.93

Format: None pages,

"I've been mythicized, Mick-icized, eulogized and fooligized, I've been Cole-Portered and farmer's-… read more

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24. Scar Tissue

By: Larry Sloman , Anthony Kiedis

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, the New York Timesbestseller by one of rock's most provocative figures Scar Tissu… read more

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25. Stories I Only Tell My Friends

By: Rob Lowe

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Hardcover

A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the… read more

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26. When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin

By: Mick Wall

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Veteran rock journalist Mick Wall unflinchingly tells the story of the band that pushed the envelop… read more

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27. It's So Easy: And Other Lies

By: Duff McKagan

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

A founding member of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle… read more

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28. Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir

By: Joe Layden , Dave Mustaine

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Founding member, singer, and lead guitarist of Metallica and Megadeath sh… read more

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29. 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
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir by Colton Haynes

30. Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir

By: Colton Haynes

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow a… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography by Ronnie James Dio

31. Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography

By: Ronnie James Dio

4.15

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Instant National Bestseller The long-awaited autobiography by one of heavy metal’s most revered ic… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction

23 must-read nonfiction books like This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx by Nikki Sixx

Transform Your Habits

Tommyland

Tommy Lee , Anthony Bozza

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Slash

Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen

Vince Neil , Mike Sager

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991

Michael Azerrad

4.22

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19 best-selling nonfiction books like Slash by Anthony Bozza, Slash

Transform Your Habits

Tommyland

Tommy Lee , Anthony Bozza

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Slash

Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Beatles Anthology

The Beatles , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , George Harrison

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith

Stephen Davis , Aerosmith

4.04

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