The OverDrive staff librarians come from a wide range of backgrounds and two of our librarians -- Liz and Rachel K. -- come from music library backgrounds. So we decided to use their collective knowledge and reading backgrounds to discuss musical memoirs and rock biographies!
 
Books Mentioned In this Episode
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Everyone Loves You When You're Dead by Neil Strauss
Tom Waits on Tom Waits edited by Paul Maher
Just Kids by Patti Smith
M-Train by Patti Smith
Girl in a band by Kim Gordon
Porcelain by Moby
Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh
Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Non Willis Arnowitz
Words Without Music by Philip Glass
Eminent Hipsters by Donald Fagen
Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins
Substance by Peter Hook
Unknown Pleasures by Peter Hook
Autobiography by Morrissey
Spider from Mars by Woody Woodmansey
On Bowie by Rob Sheffield
Love is a Mixed Tape by Rob Sheffield
Turn Around Bright Eyes by Rob Sheffield
The Show I'll Never Forget by Sean Manning
Piece by Piece by Tori Amos
Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross
Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
Special Deluxe by Neil Young
Waging Heavy Peace by Neil Young
Your Song Changed My Life by Bob Boilen
Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin
Homeward Bound by Peter Ames Carlin
Our Band Could Be Your Life Michael Azerrad
Come As You Are by Michael Azerrad
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
Country by Nich Tosches
Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa
Symphony for the City of the Dead by M.T. Anderson
Life by Keith Richards
The Dirt by Tommy Lee and Vince Neil
Get in the Van by Henry Rollins
Dancing with myself by Billy Idol
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
Tony Visconti by Tony Visconti
The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
Girls to the Front by Sara Marcus
Mo'Meta Blues by Questlove
 
 
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