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Musical Lives

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

Read one of these autobiographies by some of your favorite musicians.

Unfaithful music & disappearing ink by Elvis Costello
It's a long story : my life by Willie Nelson
Miles, the autobiography by Miles Davis
Clapton : the autobiography by Eric Clapton
Rumours of glory : a memoir by Bruce Cockburn
Fortunate son : my life, my music by John Fogerty
Boys in the trees : a memoir by Carly Simon
Mo' meta blues : the world according to Questlove by Questlove
Porcelain : a memoir by Moby
Waging heavy peace : a hippie dream by Neil Young
Loretta Lynn : coal miner's daughter by Loretta Lynn
Cash : the autobiography by Johnny Cash
Just kids : from Brooklyn to the Chelsea Hotel : a life of art and friendship by Patti Smith

In this tough, tender memoir, singer-song writer Patti Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York as she shares tales of the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's, and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.

Bound for glory by Woody Guthrie
Decoded by Jay-Z
Late, late at night : a memoir by Rick Springfield
Blues all around me ; the autobiography of B.B. King by B. B King
Delta lady : a memoir by Rita Coolidge
Moscow nights : the Van Cliburn story--how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War by Nigel Cliff
Not dead yet : the memoir by Phil Collins
The grand tour : the life and music of George Jones by Richard Kienzle
Good vibrations : my life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love
Paul McCartney : the life by Philip Norman
Chronicles by Bob Dylan