James Hartley's Reviews > The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

This is a really great book, a classic of the genre. It´s as visceral as Miles Davis´ autobiography, another I love, and trashes weak aging rock star Christmas book fare like cheap hotel rooms. It is not an attempt to explain the typically awful behaviour of rock musicians, only to document it, to say what it´s really like and to do it from the inside. In this it succeeds and goes platinum. There´s life, death, worldwide success, sex, drugs, money, ear-shredding solos, revolving, flying drumkits, celebs, attitude, dirty needles, oceanic boozing and it´s all wrapped up and packaged in a classy, well-written, well-organised tome. I´m no Motley fan but this will appeal to anyone who has ever rocked and rolled. Mindless, it ain´t.