Conheça os melhores livros já escritos sobre música

Tem de tudo na lista: autobiografias; bandas famosas; grupos menores; um livro esgotado; relatos de groupies; e memórias não tão boas assim, como as de Randy Blythe no período preso na República Tcheca. Este escriba sentiu a falta de duas grandes obras sobre o assunto: Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book Of Bass, do baixista, tecladista e vocalista do Rush; e To Live Is To Die: The Life And Death Of Metallica’s Cliff Burton, escrita por Joel McIver sobre o lendário e falecido baixista.

-Mötley Crüe: The Dirt Confessions Of The World’s Most Notorious Rock Band (Neill Strauss)

– Waiting For The Sun: A Rock ‘N’ Roll History Of Los Angeles (Barney Hoskyns)

– Led Zeppelin: Hammer Of The Gods (Stephen Davis)

– Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk (Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain)

– The True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones (Stanley Booth)

– Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol (Steve Jones)

– The Beatles Tune In: All These Years, Vol. 1 (Mark Lewisohn)

– Murder In The Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal History (Brian Lew & Harald Oimoen)

– Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes From The American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Michael Azerrad)

– White Line Fever – Lemmy: The Autobiography (Lemmy Kilmister)

– Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal & Grindcore (Albert Mudrian)

– Fried & Justified: Hits, Myths, Break-ups And Breakdowns In The Record Business 1978-98 (Mich Houghton)

– I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life And Times Of Warren Zevon (Crystal Zevon)

– 1971: Never A Dull Moment: Rock’s Golden Year (David Hepworth)

– Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times And Short Life Of Darby Crash And The Germs (Brendan Mullen)

– Life (Keith Richards)

– Espedair Street (Iain Banks)

– Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen)

– Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. (Viv Albertine)

– Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution And The Fall Of The Berlin Wall (Tim Mohr)

– No One Here Gets Out Alive (Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugarman)

– Suzy, Led Zeppelin And Me (Martin Millar)

– Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag (Henry Rollins)

– Beneath The Underdog (Charles Mingus)

– Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung – The Work Of A Legendary Critic: Rock ‘N’ Roll As Literature And Literature As Rock ‘N’ Roll (Leslie Bangs)

– Chronicles: Volume One (Bob Dylan)

– Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records And The Sixties (Ian MacDonald)

– Girl In A Band: A Memoir (Kim Gordon)

– Confess: The Autobiography (Rob Halford)

– Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota (Chuck Klosterman)

– Rhinos, Winos And Lunatics: The Legend Of A Man, A Rock ‘N’ Roll Band (Deke Leonard)

– Diary Of A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star (Ian Hunter)

– Thanks A Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story (Roger Daltrey)

– I’m With The Band: Confessions Of A Groupie (Pamela Des Barres)

– Shots From The Hip (Charles Shaar Murray)

– Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge (Mark Yarm)

– Give The Anarchist A Cigarette (Mick Farren)

– Dark Days: A Memoir – D. Randall Blythe (Randy Blythe)

– I’m Not With The Band: A Writer’s Life Lost In Music (Sylvia Patterson)

– Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History Of Metal (Jon Weiderhorn & Katherine Turman)

– Slash: The Autobiography (Slash & Anthony Bozza)

– Facing The Other Way: The Story Of 4AD (Martin Aston)

Fonte: Revista Rolling Stones