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Life
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Life

By Keith Richards , James Fox ,

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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
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Please Kill Me

By Legs McNeil , Gillian McCain ,

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I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
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I'm with the Band

By Pamela Des Barres ,

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Tune In
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Tune In

By Mark Lewisohn ,

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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'n'roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'n'roll
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

By Lester Bangs ,

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Boys in the Trees: A Memoir
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Boys in the Trees

By Carly Simon ,

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The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll
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The Chitlin' Circuit

By Preston Lauterbach ,

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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music
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Mystery Train

By Greil Marcus ,

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I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz
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I Used to Be Charming

By Eve Babitz ,

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Like a Rolling Stone: A Memoir
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Like a Rolling Stone

By Jann S. Wenner ,

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Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd
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Comfortably Numb

By Mark Blake ,

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Who I Am: A Memoir
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Who I Am

By Pete Townshend ,

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews: Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

By Rolling Stone Magazine ,

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Annie Leibovitz: Photographs
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Annie Leibovitz

By Annie Leibovitz ,

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Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America
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Comic Book Nation

By Bradford W. Wright ,

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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

By Greil Marcus ,

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The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need
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The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need

By Anthony Iannarino ,

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John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life
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John Lennon 1980

By Kenneth Womack ,

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Sixty Somethings: The Lives Of Women Who Remember The Sixties
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Sixty Somethings

By Nicola Madge , Paul Hoggart ,

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Chuck Berry: The Autobiography
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Chuck Berry

By Chuck Berry ,

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Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood
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Johnny Thunders

By Nina Antonia ,

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No One Here Gets Out Alive
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No One Here Gets Out Alive

By Jerry Hopkins , Danny Sugerman ,

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On the Road with Bob Dylan
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On the Road with Bob Dylan

By Larry Sloman ,

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The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-On Collision of Rock and Commerce
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The Mansion on the Hill

By Fred Goodman ,

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Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC
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Dirty Deeds

By Mark Evans ,

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Clapton: The Autobiography
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Clapton

By Eric Clapton ,

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Storms: My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac
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Storms

By Carol Ann Harris ,

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Slash
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Slash

By Slash , Anthony Bozza ,

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Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story
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Rage to Survive

By Etta James , David Ritz ,

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Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests
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Live from New York

By James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales ,

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Our Days Are Numbered: How Mathematics Orders Our Lives
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Our Days Are Numbered

By Jason I. Brown ,

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The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll
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The Sound of the City

By Charlie Gillett ,

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Me and a Guy Named Elvis: My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley
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Me and a Guy Named Elvis

By Jerry Schilling , Chuck Crisafulli ,

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Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
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Making Rumours

By Ken Caillat , Steve Stiefel ,

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The Restless Generation
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The Restless Generation

By Pete Frame ,

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Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War
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Armed with Abundance

By Meredith H. Lair ,

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The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
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The KLF

By John Higgs ,

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Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders, and Fans Who Were There
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Rock Concert

By Marc Myers ,

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On the Road: Recording the Stars in a Golden Era of Live Music
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On the Road

By David W. Hewitt ,

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All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
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All I Ever Wanted

By Kathy Valentine ,

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Petty: The Biography
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Petty

By Warren Zanes ,

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Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth
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Spaceships Over Glasgow

By Stuart Braithwaite ,

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Star-Making Machinery: Inside the Business of Rock and Roll
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Star-Making Machinery

By Geoffrey Stokes ,

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Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
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Just around Midnight

By Jack Hamilton ,

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A Women's History of the Beatles
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A Women's History of the Beatles

By Christine Feldman-Barrett ,

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Why Bob Dylan Matters
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Why Bob Dylan Matters

By Richard F. Thomas ,

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Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!: Presenting Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock & Roll
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Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!

By Tonya Bolden , R. Gregory Christie (illustrator) ,

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Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort"
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Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era

By Beth Fowler ,

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Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview
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Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview

By Laurie Kaye ,

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In Your Mind: The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono
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In Your Mind

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Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings
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Grapefruit

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Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
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Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

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Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin
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Scars of Sweet Paradise

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Lick Me: How I Became Cherry Vanilla
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Lick Me

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Listen to the Dance Music
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Listen to the Dance Music

By Marion Billet ,

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Machers and Rockers
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Machers and Rockers

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