Music books for Christmas - review

David Sinclair finds not just rock'n'roll, but sex and drugs too, in this year's music booksThe memoirs of a wizened rock god turned out to be one of the publishing sensations of the year. Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £20) by Keith Richards with James Fox is a startlingly candid account of one man's largely successful attempt to indulge in hitherto unimagined extremes of narcotic excess while somehow holding down a job in the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world. With such a fund of dramatic...

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