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What's the best biography/autobiography you've read?

I'm reading Oliver Reed bio at the moment, and Errol Flynn Autobio has
been started but I'll read OR first I reckon.
Keith Moon (Dear Boy) was good too.
Anthony Keidis was ok
Richard Pryor (was ok)
Niall Mackenzie (the best of the racers bios, imo)

Richard Burton is meant to be good? Never read it.


Recommendations?

 

William Haig's bio of Pitt is very good. I've got his recent one on
Wilberforce but I havn't started that yet.

Rock & Roll - Marianne Faithfull's auto bio.

 

Noted, ta

 

Tom Baker

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(John) wrote in :

I was going to recommend John Sergeant's "Give me 30 seconds" but your
snipping implies you are a wannabe star fucker

 

Who was he? Was that not the **** that was Dr Who?
Did he have an interesting life then?

 

Heh, have you read John Simpsons book?

 

Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung

 

Ah, right.

Apologies

 

(John) wrote in :

No - is it good?

 

"Rich" by Melvn Bragg? I enjoyed it a lot.
The David Niven autobiographical books are fun. As are the Barry
Humphries series.

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Has anyone read 'The damage done' by Warren Fellows?

 

nipping implies you are a wannabe star fucker

I thought it was.
And for sure if there is anyone to say what it's like, it would be him.
He got shot, how nearer can you get? It can't get more interesting or
closer than John Simpson's tales to tell.

 

Barry Humphries? Yeah that would be interesting.

 

I enjoyed David Ellery's.

 

Two off the top of my head:

Nigel Slater - Toast is pretty good.
Richard Branson - Losing My virginity was an interesting read, if a
little "look how good I am".

 

John secured a place in history by writing:

Kenneth Williams
Her that ran MI5

 

yes - an interesting read, but not even close to being a "good book".

 

recently, "Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson" by
Jonathan Coe

 

I was waiting for the 'book you cunts have never heard of' post from
you ;-)