Recommend me some books for holiday please

HAL9000

preferably something light.

I've already read some music related stuff such as Rock Stars Stole My Life, Cider With Roadies, My Bass And Other Animals, and would be interested in other stuff in a similar vein.

Also, musician biographies are something I quite enjoy.

Many thanks.

xSkarloey

Have you read Iommi's autobiography? 

Unpretentious and very, very funny in places. 

RocknRollDave

Both Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland wrote great autobiographies.
John Lydon has done two, both are good.
Rick Wakemen has done a couple of books which are basically compilations of anecdotes - nice light reading there.
I enjoyed Graham Nash's too, even though he is pretty full of himself. 

djspecialist

Not music-related, but on a recent holiday I enjoyed reading

* Number 11 - Johnathan Coe
* Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin

quarky

Not sure about "light", bur musically:

Life - Keith Richards.
No One Gets Out Alive - Danny Sugarman.

The first is about the Keith from the Rolling Stones (obviously) and the second about Jim Morrison. I really enjoyed both of them (and I am not even a big Doors fan).

EricTheWeary

I read Spectacles by Sue Perkins on my holiday, that's light reading and very funny in parts.

I'll always recommend Clothes, Clothes, Clothes,Music, Music, Music, Boys , Boys , Boys by Viv Albertine as a rock auto biography ( she was the guitarist in The Slits and the subject of Train in Vain by The Clash). 

CHRISB50

Room Full of Mirrors - Charles R Cross about Jimi is a good read.

For something non music related Touching the Void by Joe Simpson. Don't read it if you're going on a climbing holiday.

Hope you have a lovely time.

Panama_Jack666

Ozzy's biography was pretty good.

Also, Motley Crue The Dirt is worth a read.

markv

I'm currently reading "Live At The Brixton Academy" by Simon Parkes (with JS Rafaeli) - a rollicking read about how he bought the Academy for £1 and transformed it into what it is today, complete with tales of backstage excess, encounters with gangsters etc. Not heavy going at all.

I'd also recommend "It's Different For Girls" by Louse Wener (her out of Sleeper).

Slash's autobiography was enjoyable, and I don't normally go for autobiographies.

Also well worth reading is Nile Rodger's Le Freak.

Showbusiness: The Diary Of A Rock 'n' Roll Nobody by Mark Radcliffe is very funny in places.

In a slightly different vein, if you haven't read "The Commitments" by Roddy Doyle, I think it's something that will appeal to anyone who's ever played in a band.

monquixote

Nile Rodgers autobiography is great. 

If you fancy some fiction I really enjoyed "Ready Player One"

octatonic

"Near Death in the Mountains: True Stories of Disaster and Survival" by Cecil Kuhne

"Holiday SOS" by Ben Macfarlane

"Great Holiday Disasters" by Perott Phillips

Moss

Last Shop Standing - Graham Jones
Cowboys and Indies - Gareth Murphy
The Haçienda - How Not To Run A Club - Peter Hook

Sporky

Something by Greg Egan.

stimpsonslostson

Do NOT take "Things the grandchildren should know" by Mr E of Eels fame: Darkest autobiography I've ever read. Good, but phenomenally dark. 

I recently reread High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and The Commitments by Roddy Doyle recently, both are light hearted and music related. 
I also took Brief history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson which, being a science geek, I enjoyed hugely. 

littlegreenman

This is very entertaining.

http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1454520887i/39671._UY634_SS634_.jpg

littlegreenman

quarky said:

No One Here Gets Out Alive - Danny Sugarman.

Last read it when I was about 16 but remember it being good for a rock biog.

EricTheWeary

stimpsonslostson said:

Do NOT take "Things the grandchildren should know" by Mr E of Eels fame: Darkest autobiography I've ever read. Good, but phenomenally dark. 

I recently reread High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and The Commitments by Roddy Doyle recently, both are light hearted and music related. 
I also took Brief history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson which, being a science geek, I enjoyed hugely. 

I read the Bryson one, I'm really not a science geek but I enjoyed it greatly.
The Commitments is great although very short as I remember it. 

fretmeister

Great stuff.

Winny_Pooh

Guitar man by Will Hodgkinson

markblack

By the lead singer of the The Auteurs. Very good read.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Vibes-Britpop-part-downfall/dp/0099522268



Don McCullin's book is brilliant. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unreasonable-Behaviour-Autobiography-Don-McCullin/dp/0099437767/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474062204&sr=1-3&keywords=don+mccullin

HAL9000

Thanks, loads of great suggestions here.

Especially liking the looks of...

  Last Shop Standing - Graham Jones
  Cowboys and Indies - Gareth Murphy
  The Haçienda - How Not To Run A Club - Peter Hook
  A Brief History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
  The Commitments - Roddy Doyle