So you want to be a rock 'n' roll memoirist

Pete Townshend, Duran Duran's John Taylor, Cyndi Lauper and Gossip's Beth Ditto are among the rockers who've recently written books.Neil Young isn't the only rocker vying for readers this fall. Inspired, no doubt, by the critical and commercial success of recent volumes by Keith Richards and Patti Smith (the latter of which won a National Book Award in 2010), a host of musicians have entered the memoir game of late, crowding bookstore shelves with backstage tales of guitars, groupies and how tha...

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