Content tagged with "music"

Dancing With Myself
Book Review
December 26, 2016
16
The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band
Book Review
December 27, 2014
609

“I got this book as a gift. I would have never purchased it for myself, yet I loved I it, which makes it the best kind of gift you can get. This is the story of Motley Crue, a band I grew up with in the 80s. It’s raw and uncensored – that sounds like a cliche, but it’s apt when describing this book….”

Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
Deane’s Library
Book
38

“Here are some notes I took on the acquisition of this book:

I bought this for my brother for Christmas, but he already had a copy.”

Hip-Hop Is History
Deane’s Library
Book
7
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography
Deane’s Library
Book Review
June 1, 2020
284

“For the last few years, my brother has gotten in the habit of buying me a biography of an 80s music star for Christmas. First it was Motley Crue, then Billy Idol, then Phil Collins, and now Elton John. Good book. Easy to read. Flows nicely. Lots of neat recollections of famous people you know. Elton…”

Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 31, 2017
218

“My brother gave this to me as a gift. I had forgotten how much exposure I had to Phil Collins as a teenager. Looking back, he was seemingly everywhere. Turns out, I missed most of his career in the first incantation of Genesis . I only stumbled on the scene when Genesis was a threesome, and Collins…”

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Deane’s Library
Book Review
March 13, 2022
180

“I liked this book because it’s obvious Dave Grohl wrote it. It clearly wasn’t ghost-written, because the writing can be a little cliched and breathless sometimes, and there’s an authenticity to that. This is not a pure autobiography. It starts off that way, but then drifts into a series of, well,…”