White Line Fever: The Autobiography by Lemmy Kilmister
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Worth a look if you enjoy Motorhead and/or rock and roll memoirs. Lemmy is, of course, an epically sleazy dude with iffy (at best!) politics, but he's had a pretty interesting life.
His reflections from the frontlines of the 60's music scene in England and his description of his time in Hawkwind were far and away the best parts of the book, both because he was such an epic weirdo in his own right (doing pie in the face routines while dressed up as a priest in lederhosen), and for the perspective he could provide about, say, the Beatles or other huge then-contemporary bands. It's a bit like listening to an old scenester rattle on about their scene, except that the scene was the launchpad for the British invasion and the scenester helped create modern Heavy Metal.
The back half is less good (lots of moaning about labels and being past their peak), but there were still a few laugh out loud moments, so it's worth finishing if you enjoyed the first part. I can't say the book left me feeling fond of Lemmy as an individual (I liked him better when I thought some of his songs were fiction!), but always better to know than to not know.