Music Recommendations

As you may be able to tell, I enjoy music.  In addition to listening to music -– which I think is the most important thing you can do with music -– I also enjoy reading about music history and watching TV shows, movies, and documentaries about music and music history.  Of the books I've read, the movies/shows I've seen, and the music I've listened to, here are my recommendations:

Recommended listening:
-Anything you like

Recommended reading:
General
-The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll
-A History of Rock Music: The Rock & Roll Era by Glenn Gass
-Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses by R. Gary Patterson
-Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story by Chuck Klosterman
-Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal
-How Music Works by David Byrne

Genre-specific
Blues
-Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia
-Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer
Hard Rock and Heavy Metal
-Louder Than Hell:  The Definitive Oral History of Metal by Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman
-Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal by Ian Christe
-Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota by Chuck Klosterman
Hip Hop and Rap
-Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
Punk
-Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
Early 2000s Rock
-Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman

Band/person/label/album-specific
Gregg Allman/The Allman Brothers Band
-My Cross to Bear by Gregg Allman with Alan Light
Art Brut
-Any Questions?: The Complete Art Brut 2003-2013 by Eddie Argos
Aerosmith
-Walk This Way:  The Autobiography of Aerosmith by Aerosmith with Stephen Davis
The Beatles
-The Beatles by Bob Spitz
-Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation by Philip Norman
-A Hard Days' Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song by Steve Turner
-Read The Beatles:  Classic and New Writings on the Beatles, Their Legacy, and Why They Still Matter edited by June Skinner Sawyers
-The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles
Black Sabbath
-Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe by Mick Wall
David Bowie
-Bowie:  A Biography by Marc Spitz
Carrie Brownstein/Sleater-Kinney
-Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein
The Chess Brothers/Chess Records
-The Record Men: The Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock & Roll by Rich Cohen
Eric Clapton/Derek and The Dominos/Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
-Clapton by Eric Clapton
-Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs by Derek and The Dominos by Jan Reid
Sam Cooke
-Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick
The Doors
-Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors by John Densmore
-Moonlight Drive: The Stories Behind Every Doors Song by Chuck Crisafulli
Ace Frehley
-No Regrets by Ace Frehley
Guns N' Roses/Slash
-Slash by Slash with Anthony Bozza
-Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction by Marc Canter
Sammy Hagar
-Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock by Sammy Hagar
John Hammond
-The Producer:  John Hammond and The Soul of American Music by Dunstan Prial
Jimi Hendrix
-Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross
Howlin' Wolf
-Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf by James Segrest and Mark Hoffman
The Kinks/Ray Davies
-X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography by Ray Davies
Kiss
-KISS: Behind the Mask: The Official Authorized Biography by David Leaf and Ken Sharp
Led Zeppelin
-Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga by Stephen Davis
Mötley Crüe
-The Dirt by Mötley Crüe
Motörhead/Lemmy Kilmister
-White Line Fever: The Autobiography by Lemmy Kilmister with Janiss Garza
Lou Reed/Velvet Underground
-Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis
-Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga
The Rolling Stones/Keith Richards
-Life by Keith Richards
Phil Spector
-Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector by Mick Brown
Bruce Springsteen/Born to Run
-Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin
-Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen's American Vision by Louis P. Masur
Thin Lizzy/Phil Lynott
-Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back in Town by Scott Gorham and Harry Doherty
-Phil Lynott: The Rocker by Mark Putterford
Van Halen
-Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga by Ian Christe
Brian Wilson/The Beach Boys
-I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir by Brian Wilson with Ben Greenman

Recommended viewing:
Documentaries
-The Beatles Anthology
-The Beatles:  Get Back
-Seven Ages of Rock
-Sonic Highways
-Sound City
-The Sparks Brothers
-Squaring the Circle:  The Story of Hipgnosis
-Standing in the Shadows of Motown
-Streetlight Harmonies
-Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
-Tear the Roof Off-The Untold Story of Parliament Funkadelic
-Thank You, Goodnight:  The Bon Jovi Story
-Thin Lizzy:  Rocker on The Loose
-Thriller 40
-The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
-Until The Light Takes Us
-VH1's History of Rock and Roll
-We Are Twisted F***ing Sister!
-Wesley Willis:  The Daddy of Rock 'n' Roll
-When You're Strange: A Film About The Doors
-Woodstock '99:  Peace, Love & Rage
-The Wrecking Crew!
-ZZ Top:  That Little Ol' Band From Texas

Concert Films or Video Compilations
-The Concert for Bangladesh
-Def Leppard: Historia/In The Round In Your Face
-The Last Waltz
-The White Stripes: Under Blackpool Lights
-Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous
-Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music

Films
-A Hard Day's Night
-Help!
-Let It Be
-Metal Lords
-Rock Star
-This is Spinal Tap
-Yesterday

TV
-Behind the Music
-Daisy Jones & The Six
-Song Exploder
-That Metal Show
-This Is Pop
-VH1 Storytellers

Obviously, if you have any recommendations, let me know.

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