As a longtime fan of popular music, I almost always enjoy reading about pop music history, especially biographies.
I love getting the inside information about backstage shenanigans, studio trickery and assorted personality conflicts. The Al Kooper book title sums it up rather nicely for me.
The Library has received quite a number of intriguing titles in the last year that will appeal to many fans of popular music.
Here are just a few titles to whet the appetites of all the rock n roll groupies out there (you know who you are !_!):
Willie Nelson : an epic life, by Joe Nick Patoski.
Girls Like Us : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon–and the journey of a generation, by Sheila Weller
Tell the Truth Until they Bleed : coming clean in the dirty world of blues and rock ‘n’ roll, by Josh Alan Friedman
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash : my life, my beats, by Grandmaster Flash
My Chemical Romance : this band will save your life, by Reinhardt Haydn
Heaven and Hell : my life in the Eagles (1974-2001), byDon Felder
Stripped : Depeche Mode, by Jonathan Miller
Off the rails : aboard the crazy train in the Blizzard of Ozz, by by Rudy Sarzo
W.A.R. : the unauthorized biography of William Axl Rose, by Mick Wall
