18 must-read biography books like Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir by Mark Lanegan

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Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

By: Mark Lanegan

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou…

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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
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. 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
  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
"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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3. Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music

By: Greg Prato

4.01

Format: 478 pages, Paperback

Grunge Is Dead weaves together the definitive story of the Seattle music scene through a series of … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"YANNI “JOHNNY"

-Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music

"ROBERT ROTH: Going against the tide, no matter how gracefully, will beat you up after a while — all artists know this."

-Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music

"KURT DANIELSON: [Kurt Cobain] was the most gifted and cursed. And also the most ferocious, innocent, and nicest. A bundle of extremes and opposites."

-Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music

"NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict don’t think the same — their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery."

-Greg Prato, Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music

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4. 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
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5. Alice in Chains: The Untold Story

By: None

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Alice in Chains were among the loudest voices out of Seattle. They were iconic pioneers who mixed g… read more

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6. Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, and Mental Illness

By: Mary Forsberg Weiland , Larkin Warren

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fall to Pieces is a beautifully written, visceral, roller coaster ride inside bipolar disorder, roc… read more

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7. Not Dead and Not for Sale

By: Scott Weiland , David Ritz

4.20

Format: 192 pages, ebook

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8. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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9. 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
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Faith, Hope and Carnage

By: Nick Cave

4.44

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

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12. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

By: Mark Lanegan

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more

Similar categories in Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir book and Mark Lanegan's Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

  • music
  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

By: Steven Hyden

4.14

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A leading music journalist’s riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of the many musical distinctions of my lifetime that used to seem important and now is completely forgotten is the difference between “alternative"

-Steven Hyden, Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation

Cover of Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell by Corbin Reiff

14. Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell

By: Corbin Reiff

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"The new Chris Cornell biography is the book his legacy deserves." — Kerrang! "Reiff unearths pl… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir by Kid Congo Powers

15. Some New Kind of Kick: A Memoir

By: Kid Congo Powers

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, coming-of-age memoir by legendary guitarist Kid Congo Powers, detailing his experience… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Tenement Kid

By: Bobby Gillespie

4.02

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

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18. Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion

By: Steve Turner

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene—from backyard ska… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't: The Story Of The Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band To Ever Come out Of The Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees by Barrett Martin

19. The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't: The Story Of The Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band To Ever Come out Of The Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees

By: Barrett Martin

4.24

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

In 1992, the Screaming Trees were expected to become the next big band to come out of the Seattle m… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Hit So Hard: A Memoir by Patty Schemel

20. Hit So Hard: A Memoir

By: Patty Schemel

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stunningly candid and inspiring memoir of recovery from addiction and the '90s, by Hole drummer P… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense

By: Ronen Givony

3.66

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

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Transform Your Habits

Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music

Greg Prato

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain

Charles R. Cross

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

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Tim Burgess

4.04

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Macrofestivales: El agujero negro de la música

Nando Cruz

4.27

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Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

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Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore

3.81

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