 | Eye Mind: Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators by Paul Drummond
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £7.40 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: £5.99 / Used from: £3.50 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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 | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £1.50 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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 | Mr. Nice by Howard Marks
Buy new: £6.94 / 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: £5.49 / Used from: £3.06 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 new: £13.29 / Used from: £3.64 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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 | Ricky by Ricky Tomlinson
Buy new: £0.01 / Used from: £0.01 I pleasant surprise, much more tho this man than the Royle family. Depth and experience, maybe even integrity.
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 | Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.40 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: £14.49 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: £2.74 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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