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Maybe not quite what you’re looking for but Our Band Could Be Your life is superb and covers loads of great bands.
Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys by Viv Albertine was a fantastic read although her times as a musician only part of it.
I have read a bunch of the 2 Tone ones: Pauline Black's autobiography ( lot of focus on racial identity), Neville Staple's ( brief and racy, not that much about being in a band) and Horace Panter's ( maybe it wouldn't win any prizes for literature but it is almost all about being in bands).
Must be a few others I've read over the years - I remember liking Martin Kemp's, Johnny Marr's was fine ( I suspect if you are a fan it's more than that but as a bystander it's just an okay book). I've read a bunch of biography's and history's but they generally aren't very exciting to read.
Autobiographies are funny things - I remember reading Pele's and his various marriages and children get a paragraph whereas he could take half a chapter to describe an important football match. I think Chuck Berry's bore so little relationship to the truth it should probably be in the Fiction section.
If he's to be believed, he more or less created the Universe.
Hilarious stuff from a mind blowing level of egotism.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Bill Bruford's was interesting and insightful.
Charles Shaar Murray's Hendrix book, "Crosstown Traffic" isn't really a straight biography, but is well worth a read.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
I'm not a big fan of biographies and I'm not really a big fan of either of these people, but I liked Keith Richards' Life and Guy Pratt's My Bass and Other Animals.
Both are interesting, well-written books as opposed to just strings of facts and anecdotes.
I also liked the Frank Zappa book and Neil Peart's Ghost Rider.