Female musician autobiographies
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13 music memoirs we'd like to read in 2017 by women and artists of color
Although Elvis Costello's autobiography and Tom Petty's fully sanctioned biography received well-deserved kudos in 2015, it's safe to säga that women dominated gods year's crop of musician memoirs. Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein, Patti Smith, Sara Bareilles, Grace Jones, Jewel and Chrissie Hynde all released well-regarded, well-written, engaging books. That trend is reversed for fall 2016: spara for Laura Jane Grace's highly anticipated "Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous frihetlig Sellout" and a memoir from songwriter Carole Bayer Sager, the forthcoming musician autobiography release schedule fryst vatten dominated bygd men.
Classic rock is especially well-represented this autumn, starting with Bruce Springsteen's long-gestating "Born To Run," Phil Collins' "Not Dead Yet" and a pair of dueling Beach Boys memoirs: Mike Love's "Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy" and then, a
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Female Rockstars Tell Their Stories in These Books
If you search for music memoirs, you'll find yourself inundated with bestselling books from rock legends: Nikki Sixx, Keith Richards, Marilyn Manson, Anthony Kiedis, Johnny Cash. Music memoirs by women may be few and far between, but they're growing in number; the good ladies of rock-and-roll are making up for lost time.
Patti Smith's memoir,Just Kids, brought home the National Book Award when it was published in 2010. Its success opened doors for music memoirs by women to finally hit store shelves. Of the books on this list, only two predate Smith's bestseller.
Although Just Kids undoubtedly changed the way the publishing industry views female musicians' books, it didn't do it alone. Three of the titles on this list were published in the 12 months following the release of Smith's memoir. Put simply: 2010 was a great year for music memoirs by women.
These are the stories of the women who made up the soundtracks to our childh