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Best Rock Tell-Alls: When Rockers Spill the Beans

8/9/07, 6:47 pm EST

Photo: J-Lo

We’re sure some Jennifer Lopez obsessives are bummed out by the news that the singer-slash-actress’ first husband, Ojani Noa, is now legally barred from publishing his J.Lo tell-all book. But instead of mourning all the juicy details we’ll never know about the Fly Girl’s alleged late-’90s affairs, let’s focus on all the revealing rock books already out there. Here are a few of our favorites (feel free to contribute your own):

  • Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull — For years rumors persisted that during the infamous Redlands drug bust at Keith Richards’ home in Sussex, police found Mick Jagger, Faithfull, and a Mars bar involved in an orgy. Faithfull dispelled this rumor in her autobiography: “Mick retrieving a Mars Bar from my vagina, indeed! It’s a dirty old man’s fantasy. A cop’s idea of what people do on acid!”
  • Cash by Johnny Cash — Cash’s autobiography is noteworthy not because it reveals scandalous details about his life; his substance-abuse issues and relationship with June Carter were already well-known. It’s the intimacy with which Cash writes about the major, already-famous events of his life that makes Cash a truly engaging tell-all.
  • The Dirt by Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss — The bible of rock books reveals many salacious, obscene and even weirdly sweet truths about the Sunset Strip’s most debauched rockers, but our favorite is Nikki Sixx’s description of the famous Ozzy ant-snorting incident. “I handed [Ozzy] the straw and he walked over to a crack in the sidewalk and bent over it. I saw a long column of ants, marching to a little sand dugout built where the pavement met the dirt. And as I thought, ‘No, he wouldn’t,’ he did. He put the straw to his nose and, with his bare white ass peeking out from under the dress like a sliced honeydew, sent the entire line of ants tickling up his nose with a single, monstrous snort.”

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Spencer | 8/9/2007, 7:11 pm EST

“the real frank zappa book” by frank zappa
“scar tissue” by anthony kiedis

and i’m shocked that RS, out of all magazines, forgot bob dylan’s “chronicles, vol. 1″

Ommission | 8/10/2007, 2:05 am EST

“Jacked Off: Paul Reubens’ Tale Of His PeeWee”

kate | 10/2/2007, 2:14 pm EST

does backstage passes by angela bowie count?

Leila | 7/14/2008, 2:12 pm EST

“Home Before Daylight – My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead” by Steve Parish, a Dead roadie who was particularly close to the musicians. Parish leaves nothing out, from partying with the Merry Pranksters to his trying attempt to end Garcia’s crippling heroin addiction, all told in the honest voice of someone who loved the scene, the music, but most of all, the people of the Grateful Dead community, musicians and fellow roadies alike. A must-read for anyone interested in rock biographies.

Leila | 7/14/2008, 4:48 pm EST

And also “Slash” by Slash. The Guns ‘N Roses guitarist talks about his rock and roll lifestyle, dirty details included. Slash is a crazy guy, no doubt, but in the midst of all the drugs and alcohol, he still has the ability to dedicate himself entirely to music.
A long, but very action-packed read.

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