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I agree with ChildofOldLeech. The first half of the book is lyrical and elegiac, exactly the sort of lush prose style I would have expected from Morrissey. But you know in your heart that the narrrative is slowly circling around the disaster-zone of the acrimonious Smith's royalties case. Which may be of vital interest to Morrissey, but not to me. In the latter half there is too much vitriol and score-settling and it all gets a bit tedious.

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While we're on the subject, here's some musical autobiographies I've enjoyed over the years:

Just Kids - Patti Smith
Chronicles Volume 1 - Bob Dylan
Rotten: No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish - John Lydon
Head On/reposessed - Julian Cope

(I haven't read Justin Bieber's First Step 2 Forever: My Story yet, so the list might grow).

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Derek, you might want to check out Jack Bruce Composing Himself by Harry Shapiro. An interesting volume...esp. the horror story of Bruce undergoing major surgery while not fully under. That resonated with me.

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The Real Frank Zappa Book is (no surprise) an intelligent and entertaining autobiography. The book is so unmistakably in Zappa's voice that I wonder what role the coauthor had in it; I don't think it could have been ghostwritten.

Dylan's Chronicles, Volume One is also good. "I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of." Ha. Much truth in that, but. . . . Anyway, I love that quote, but it isn't representative of most of the book, which meanders ruminatively through a few disparate periods of his life. Not what I expected, and better than I expected. I wonder if the projected volumes two and three will ever appear.

It's too bad Eric Hoffer didn't live long enough to write The True Belieber.

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If I had sound I'm sure I would enjoy many of these

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Mark S.

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Mark S,

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Mark S.

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These are Doors early demos. No Krieger. A female bass player. Ray's two brothers.
Jim sings in a much higher voice, he really was a high baritone.
You'll know the songs. But you won't believe it's the Doors...because it's not. Krieger made a big difference. But still it's fascinating to hear these songs. Moonlight Drive sounds like an old blues number.

The Doors Aura Studio Demos (1965) [Early recordings of the Doors] - YouTube