Rockers as Writers

Rock Stars of Books: Musicians’ Big Sales
Julie Bosnan in the New York Times, on the recent trend (I hesitate to call it a “wave,” exactly) of rock star auto-bios, from bestsellers by Keith Richards and Sammy Hagar, to still-in-progress works by Pete Townshend and Billy Idol.

Speaking of which, here’s Greil Marcus’s pan of the Keith Richards’ bio.

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