From Bob Dylan to Viv Albertine: 10 of the best music biographies
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/17/ten-best-music-biographies
Addiction, poetry, flirting with Scientology: these candid memoirs and biographies reveal the inner lives of musicians
(Faber & Faber, 2014)
A no-nonsense sojourn through Albertine’s life as guitarist in the Slits and, later, as a film-maker, mother and divorcee, and during which she blithely chats about masturbation, catching crabs and giving Johnny Rotten a blowjob. It’s a terrific read and provides a corrective to the reigning punk narrative where men are the creative geniuses and women the bit-part players.
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