Ever wonder what the life of a rock star is like? If you have a love for music or are curious what life is like on the road, then these books might be music to your ears.
Fiction
Two rising 70s rock-and-roll artists are catapulted into stardom when a
producer puts them together, a decision that is complicated by a
pregnancy and the seductions of fame.
An ambitious young rapper pours her frustrations into a song only to find herself at the center of a viral controversy that forces her to become the menace that her public reputation has portrayed her to be.
Cesar and Nestor Castillo--two very different Cuban brothers--recall their heyday in 1950s New York, when they led an orchestra, were known as "the Mambo Kings," and appeared on the "I Love Lucy" show.
Sent to America at age nine with nothing but an old guitar, Frankie Presto achieves success on the mid-twentieth-century music scene before becoming overburdened by his ability to affect people's futures through his music.
Nonfiction
Singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : 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.
An autobiographical portrait of the acclaimed musical performer recounting personal and professional experiences.
A founding member of Sonic Youth, fashion icon, and role model for a generation of women, tells her story--a memoir of life as an artist, of music, marriage, motherhood, independence, and as one of the first women of rock and roll.
The guitarist and vocalist of feminist punk trio Sleater-Kinney presents a candid and deeply personal assessment of life in the rock-and-roll industry that reveals her struggles with rock's double standards and her codevelopment of the comedy "Portlandia."
The lead guitarist for The Rolling Stones offers a no-holds-barred account of his life, from a youth obsessed with Chuck Berry to his formation of the Stones and their subsequent stardom, as well his problems with drugs, his relationships, his estrangement from Mick Jagger, bandmate Brian Jones' death and more.
The singer of such hits as "Mony Mony" and "I Think We're Alone Now" tells the wild and entertaining true story of his career and his complex relationship with Morris Levy, the legendary "godfather" of the music business.
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