What Are The Best Books By Musicians?

This year, for the first time, there's a Best Book category at the NME Awards. Keith Richards' Decoded, Keith Richards' Life and Carl Barat's Threepenny Memoir are all on the shortlist (though curiously Susan Boyle's The Woman I Was Born To Be didn't make the cut). Coincidentally, we revealed today that two musicians are currently writing books. Patti Smith is working on a detective novel (somehow I doubt it'll be a cosy Miss Marple-type affair), while Kele Okereke is moving to New York to foc...

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