Rock autobiography 2013
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The 50 Greatest Rock Memoirs of All Time
So many CBGB-era punk memoirs out there, but Richard Hell’s is unique — poetic yet never pompous, bemused without corny punch lines. As a 17-year-old Kentucky kid, he runs off to NYC to be a poet, but ends up a rock & roller. “‘Sacred monster’ is definitely the job description,” Hell writes. “Being a pop star, a front person, takes indestructible certainty of one’s own irresistibility. That’s the monster part.” He depicts his music comrades — Tom Verlaine, Robert Quine, Patti Smith, Lester Bangs — and all the girls he’s loved before. (Hell was the punk Leonard Cohen in that department.) He quips about his popularity with critics, “because they were predisposed to favor noise, intellect, and failure.” In the final scene, he runs into his old nemesis Verlaine for the first time in years — flipping through the dollar bins outside the Strand Bookstore — and walks away in tears, musing, “We were like two monsters confiding.”
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Required Reading: 79 Rock Memoirs
The life of a rock 'n' roll artist involves a lot of ups and downs, trials and tribulations.
Many memories are naturally made along the way. Some are positive: the first record deal a band lands, the first time they scored a great opening gig or their first No. 1 hit song. Others can be a little less rosy: complicated lineup changes, shifty managers and bandmates lost to drug addiction or other circumstances.
Most rock artists spend a huge portion of their lives on the road, a nomadic existence that inevitably makes life seem like it's running at top speed all the time. After decades of carrying on like this, it can be intriguing to look back at everything, which many have done in the form of personal memoirs.
Some of the artists in the below list of Required Reading: 79 Rock Memoirs don't feel like they need to put their lives down in a book. Robert Plant, Mick Jagger and Ringo Starr are among the high-profile rockers who've made it clear that penning a memoir isn't for them. "I mean, what – who – for?" Plant said in 2017. "Those stories are locked nicely between my two ever-growing ear holes. So fuck it. There's a lot in there, an
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