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It's rubbish.  He manages to make being a rock star sound genuinely boring. 

I always thought being a rock star was boring!

I'm reading the Motley Crue autobiography, 'The Dirt' - fecking outrageous I tell thee.

The movie is ridiculous (and probably accurate).

I've read a lot of rock star bio's and most of them are quite interesting. Eg Chrissy Hynde getting caught up in the Kent State shooting in America.

I  don't think Wood has ever been sober or straight long enough to notice anything going on around him that doesn't involve him at the centre of it.

I read that and thought the same.

Not rock but jazz, but nothing I have read quite matches the self destructive debauchery of jazz great Art Pepper's biog 'Straight Life'. I was engrossed and grossed out in equal measure.. how he did what he did and still produced such great music is a wonder.

Hmmmm ..... Nice!

I read Keith Richards’ autobiography a couple of years ago and really enjoyed that.

Thinking of fellow Stones, have you read Keef's? I thought it was highly entertaining. And it's got a great inside cover showing the spines of some of his cherished LPs. His love and respect for the blues comes out really strongly - a living rebuke to some other rock megastars who tried to rip the old bluesmen off. It was published in 2010 - who knows, given his constitution, maybe he'll live long enough for volume 2!

Have a read of charles mingus' behind the underdog. 

I have it and read half of it but put it to one side. I will go back to it. 

[PS - Beneath] 

No, but I would like to. Mozart to Salieri!

Rock Star?

He's just been a glorified session man since 1975

Maybe with the Stones, but he seems to be having fun in all those Faces videos.

I knew it would be . hummed and hah'd but couldn't be bothered to go into the other room to check the bookcase  

There must be a Ronnie Pickering  autobiography out there somewhere and I get the impression that we're all supposed to have read it.

If there is, it will probably be called 'D'you Know Who I am?' and feature a lot of bare knuckle fighting stories.