 | Eye Mind: Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators by Paul Drummond
Buy new: £10.18 / Used from: £12.63 Unbeleivable trip thru early psychedelia, busts, peyote, music, psychiatry & its aftermath. Discover the Elevators thru their story rather than the CDs. How to snatch obscurity from the jaws of fame!
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 | Back from the Brink: The Autobiography by Paul McGrath
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £2.29 You don't have to be a football fan to read this. Being Autobiographical Paul's more scathing about his lapses than a biographer might be. A scary childhood & adult life plagued by alcohol\drug abuse.
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 | Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett and the Dawn of "Pink Floyd": Syd Barrett and the Dawn of "Pink Floyd" by Mike Watkinson
Buy new: £5.77 / Used from: £3.42 A sensitive and revealing portrait of The Madcap - a justified but misunderstood lable. Read the book and educate yourself as to both who he was and who he became - two very different people.
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 | Mr. Nice by Howard Marks
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £0.01 Picked this up in an Airport on the way to a holiday in Tunisia. It was the perfect read for foreign climes. Suitcases full of cash disappearing left, right and centre.
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 | J R R Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £2.24 The man and the mind behind Lord of the Rings. Extraordinairy in a most rederved and English academic way. A life dedicated to a detailed mythology of his own making.
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 | Iggy Pop - Open Up and Bleed: The Biography by Paul Trynka
Buy used from: £9.00 Ig and Angst and all that goes with it, Screwed up, screwed around and just plain screwed at times. Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll - whadya expect?
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 | No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography of Jim Morrison by Jerry Hopkins
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Jim lived it large & fast, More booze than drugs if we believe it. Another life on the edge. Dark, brooding, syruppy & enlightening.
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 | Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.01 Written by Dylan so this book speaks to you in his voice and imagery. It tells you lots about his formative years while telling you very little - insights that add to the mystique. Napolean in rags.
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 | The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Neil Strauss
Buy used from: £9.79 A friend lent me this to read - not a band I'd listen to. Their lifestyle though is pure hedonistic, self-destructive, self-loathing Rock and Roll. Incredible (that no-one died).
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 | Tales From the Boot Camps by Steve Claridge
Buy used from: £0.14 I come from the wrong side of the Brum soccer divide to be a Claridge fan but I did enjoy his wild, gambling-driven career. How to fritter away the rewards of talent.
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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: £6.02 / Used from: £1.33 A great read because it's a journey through recent chinese history that ends up in my time. One woman's experience encompasses so many enforced transformations.
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 | Ricky by Ricky Tomlinson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A pleasant surprise, much more to this man than the Royle family. Depth and experience, maybe even integrity.
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