22 ULTIMATE ROCK READS
Summer’s approaching, you’re heading off on holiday and you want something to read that will absorb and entertain you. You love your rock, but don’t want to read some shit that a pissed idiot in an AC/DC T-shirt (who was mates with one of the band’s ex-girlfriend’s uncles) could’ve written. So what do you turn to? Here’s the thing: a lot of good books about rock have been written, from autobiographies to era studies, lyrics compendiums and beyond. We’ve crunched the best of them into this prize selection, including popular classics and newer and/or lesser-known gems.
THE DIRT
Mötley Crüe with Neil Strauss HARPER COLLINS
The big one. The ( filthy) Godfather of rock books. If you only ever read one rockstar biography in your life, make it this one. Recently immortalised in a long-awaited Netflix feature film, is so gob-smackingly scandalous you’ll frequently question whether it actually happened as you read. Read in shock and awe as Nikki Sixx and co. rise from smalltime LA to the Sunset Strip and the biggest stages in the world – smoking, shagging and shooting up things, both thinkable and unthinkable.
