Music Journalism and Biography

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Music can inspire great journalism, biography and documentary writing. Lets share some here
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Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past
by Graeme Lawson
25 members
1 review
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Nothing
by Paul Morley
61 members
4.1
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The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll
by Julie Burchill
101 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
by Joe Coscarelli
28 members
1 review
3
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Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld
by T. J. English
110 members
1 review
4
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
by Craig Brown
378 members
16 reviews
4.2
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
by Forrest Stuart
22 members
1 review
½ 4.7
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Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917
by Dale Cockrell
31 members
2 reviews
4.2
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Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor: Music, Manchester, and More: A Memoir
by Dave Haslam
24 members
3
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The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall
by Steve Hanley
72 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
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Kraftwerk: I Was a Robot
by Wolfgang Flür
120 members
4 reviews
3
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The Last Holiday: A Memoir
by Gil Scott-Heron
152 members
3 reviews
4
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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963
by Ed Ward
112 members
3 reviews
4
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The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll: Collected Music Writings 2005-09
by Robert Forster
29 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
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Girl in a Band
by Kim Gordon
971 members
23 reviews
½ 3.5
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Baby You're a Rich Man: Suing the Beatles for Fun and Profit
by Stan Soocher
29 members
11 reviews
3.9
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I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol
by Glen Matlock
52 members
½ 3.4
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Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing
by Tracey Thorn
71 members
1 review
3.9
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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
by John Seabrook
319 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
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Head-On/Repossessed
by Julian Cope
180 members
4 reviews
4.2
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
by Viv Albertine
542 members
18 reviews
4.2
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Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Mayhem, Life
by Jah Wobble
43 members
3.2
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The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music
by Richard Williams
88 members
4 reviews
3.9
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The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club
by Peter Hook
195 members
7 reviews
½ 3.5
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Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture
by Mark James Russell
22 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain's Most Insane Group
by Dave Simpson
86 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by Alex Ross
3,141 members
63 reviews
½ 4.3
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Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
by Ben Ratliff
234 members
7 reviews
3.8
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West African Pop Roots
by John Collins
7 members
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Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave
by Ian Johnston
217 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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So What: The Life of Miles Davis
by John Szwed
171 members
4.1
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The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
by Michael Steen
144 members
2 reviews
4.1
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The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music
by Nick Kent
291 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes
by Sylvie Simmons
125 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
by Bill Brewster
394 members
4.2
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Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica
by Norman C. Stolzoff
52 members
½ 3.5
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Ball the Wall: Nik Cohn in the Age of Rock (Picador Books)
by Nik Cohn
40 members
½ 3.6
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Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
by James Gavin
168 members
1 review
3.8
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Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
by Ashley Kahn
362 members
8 reviews
4.2
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A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album
by Ashley Kahn
316 members
4 reviews
3.9
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With Billie
by Julia Blackburn
123 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
by Lloyd Bradley
160 members
3 reviews
4.2
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Last Gang in Town: The Story and Myth of the Clash
by Marcus Gray
113 members
1 review
4.1
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Mystery train : images of America in rock 'n' roll music
by Greil Marcus
831 members
7 reviews
3.9
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Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star
by Tracey Thorn
231 members
5 reviews
4.1
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Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy Classic Rock & Pop Writing from Elvis to Oasis
by Dylan Jones
34 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus
1,268 members
15 reviews
3.9
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England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock
by Jon Savage
916 members
7 reviews
4.1
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