9 Rock & Roll Books You Need Under the Tree This Christmas

1. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band – Mötley Crüe
The Mount Everest of sex, drugs and chaos. If you haven’t read this, your rock card is suspended.

2. Life – Keith Richards
Keef spills every cigar-stained secret from the riffs to the arrests. It’s like drinking whiskey straight from the bottle.

3. Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen
The Boss opens up about music, burnout, redemption and the long road from Jersey bars to global legend.

4. Beastie Boys Book – Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz
A loud, funny, wild tribute to a band that rewrote the rules. Fast, witty and full of backstage insanity.

5. Me – Elton John
Rocket Man doesn’t hold back: addictions, tantrums, triumphs and a soundtrack you already know by heart.

6. Slash – Slash with Anthony Bozza
Guns N’ Roses’ top-hatted hero recounts the riffs, the battles and the backstage blowouts that nearly burned down Hollywood.

7. The Heroin Diaries – Nikki Sixx
Sixx’s brutally honest year-long journal from hell. Dark, electric and impossible to look away from.

8. Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith – Aerosmith & Stephen Davis
America’s bad boys tell their side of the madness, the marriages blown up, hotels destroyed and comebacks earned with blood.

9. Hammer of the Gods – Stephen Davis (Led Zeppelin)
The most notorious Zeppelin book ever written. Pagan excess, debauchery and riffs that shook the planet.