15 best-selling autobiography books like Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello

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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

By: Elvis Costello

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trum…

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1. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

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2. Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir

By: Linda Ronstadt

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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3. Under the Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush

By: Graeme Thomson , Graeme Thompson

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

The first ever in-depth study of Kate Bush's life and career, Under The Ivy features over 70 unique… read more

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  • music
  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. 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

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

By: Elvis Costello

4.00

Format: 10 pages, Hardcover

Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trum… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Atrocity Exhibition by William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, V. Vale, Phoebe Gloeckner, Andrea Juno, Ana Barrado

6. The Atrocity Exhibition

By: William S. Burroughs , J.G. Ballard , V. Vale , Phoebe Gloeckner , Andrea Juno , Ana Barrado

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Easily one of the 20th century's most visionary writers, J. G. Ballard still lives far ahead of his… read more

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7. Who I Am

By: Pete Townshend

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Hardcover

From the voice of a generation: The most highly anticipated autobiography of the year, and the stor… read more

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8. Life

By: Keith Richards

3.17

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the… read more

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9. 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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10. Petty: The Biography

By: Warren Zanes

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writ… read more

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11. Born to Run

By: Bruce Springsteen

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The e… read more

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12. Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk

By: John Doe , Tom DeSavia

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Under the Big Black Sunexplores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to har… read more

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13. It's a Long Story: My Life

By: Willie Nelson

3.71

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson "Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned." . . … read more

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14. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

17. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Cover of Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina by Chris Frantz

18. Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

By: Chris Frantz

3.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Chris Frantz’s memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-lon… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Without adventures, we won’t have stories."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

"...the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness."

-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

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19. Beastie Boys Book

By: Michael Diamond

4.54

Format: 572 pages, Hardcover

A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself--b… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

20. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. 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

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back by Jeff Tweedy

22. How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

There are few creative acts more mysterious and magical than writing a song. But what if the goal w… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To all of the songs like windows, open just enough for us to make our escape, and to all of the songs like windows, closed and clear enough in a dim light to see our own reflection and be reminded of…"

-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

"When I'm on stage, my experience often goes something like this: Blankness . . . bliss . . . blankness . . . twinkle of awareness that rocking has been achieved . . . bliss . . . Voice of Observing E…"

-Jeff Tweedy, How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back

Cover of Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir by Sly Stone

23. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

By: Sly Stone

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst

24. Goth: A History

By: Lol Tolhurst

3.68

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Following his memoir  Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2) by Karl Ove Knausgård

25. The Wolves of Eternity (Morgenstjernen, #2)

By: Karl Ove Knausgård

4.03

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

26. World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New Yor… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. by Jeff Tweedy

27. Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.

By: Jeff Tweedy

4.33

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

The singer, guitarist, and songwriter—best known for his work with Wilco—opens up about his past, h… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you were me, which I am,"

-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.

"The Chicago historian Studs Terkel asked Bob Dylan in the sixties about how he went about writing a song and trying to outdo himself, or at least being as good as the last song he wrote, and his resp…"

-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.

"As we grow, we learn to evaluate and judge, to navigate the world with some discretion, and then we turn on ourselves – creating can't just be for the sake of creating anymore. It has to be good, or …"

-Jeff Tweedy, Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.

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

28. 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
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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29. Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground

By: Dylan Jones

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, an… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein by Jamie Bernstein

30. Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein

By: Jamie Bernstein

3.90

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The oldest daughter of revered composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her fathe… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
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  • biography memoir
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  • audiobook
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31. Betsey: A Memoir

By: Betsey Johnson

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A memoir by the internationally famous fashion designer and style icon Mention the name "Betsey Jo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

21 must-read audiobook books like Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello

Transform Your Habits

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender

Chrissie Hynde

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Set the Boy Free

Johnny Marr

2.50

Transform Your Habits

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

Elvis Costello

4.00

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

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18 Top music books like World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy

Transform Your Habits

Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

Bob Boilen

3.78

Transform Your Habits

My Effin' Life

Geddy Lee

4.58

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

4.35

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