The Miles Davis Autobiography is a hoot, as is the second volume of Daevid Allen's Gong Dreaming which deals with the classic era of the Gongband. I'm currently re-reading Graham Bennett's book on the Soft Machine after which I might go for Sid Smith's examplary work on King Crimson, or either of Deke Leonard's autobiographical accounts of life before, during & after the Manband. Peter Hook's account (and accounts) of The Hacienda is worth a look, and Raymond Greenoaken gives a glowing review of the Kieth Richard's Autobiography which is tempting. I've got two biogs of my hero Scott Walker (Deep Shade of Blue and another one) neither of which I enjoyed too much, unlike Ginger Geezer, which accounts for the Life and Times of Vivian Stanshall and manages to be hilarious and harrowing my turns. Folk Books tend towards the academic, the over worthy & the theorectical, which is a shame really, though I love Bob Copper's writing & Bob Roberts too; I think I'm just about recovered from Georgina Boyes's The Imagined Village to begin on that copy of Harker's Fakesong Ross leant me a while ago along with a book on Joe Holmes. I love Johnny Haslett's hefty volume on Lancastrian Morris & Alison MacMorland's Herd Laddie o' the Glen (Willie Scott); Bob Pegg's Folk and Rites and Riots are both belters, and I've enjoyed as much of Hutton's Stations of the Sun as my eyes can take. Richard Hayman's new Shire book on The Green Man is essential reading (everything a book on The Green Man should be but seldom is - see my review at Amazon) and I can still recommend Marcia MacDermott's Explore Green Men (Heart of Albion) though the companion volumes in the Explore Series are routinely panned - Explore Folklore, for example, falls flat when it tries to extend its enlightened thesis to include Folk Music, which is a shame really. Back to real folk-life, you could do worse than the Harpo Marx Autobiography and the more scurilous side of Groucho that comes shining through The Marx Brother's Scrap Book. Robert King's book on Henry Purcell is a nice read as well & my overriding impression of Rolf Harris's autobiography that it was too modest by far, unlike Mark E. Smith's autobiography which is immodest & hilarious. High on my wish list right now is Mark E. Smith and The Fall: Art, Music and Politics part of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Turned out nice again!