Hard /heavy metal bios

I read a few biographies, official and unofficial ones.
The two i enjoyed most were "A Saucerful of Secrets - The Pink Floyd Odysee" and "How Black was our Sabbath". The last one is written by the personal assistants of Ozzy and Ward and they talk about the 70's. Interesting stories.
The Pink Floyd book is good too, even though the author seems to dislike Roger Waters quite a bit.

My main problem with Biographies from Bands/Musicians is that they rather want to talk about their day to day life and not about how they came up with the Songs, what went on in the Studio. A example is the Book from Tony Iommi, he rather talks about how much drugs and alcohol he did, how many pranks he played on the others who answered with their own pranks (and it was a badly written and constructed book)
Same goes for Run to the Hills, the Iron Maiden book from Mick Wall. Lots of comments from the Band but a bit too few information about their albums, the songs.
And one thing i think is interesting are the mistakes. You should think those people know their lives, but they get facts wrong, dates wrong...Slash in his Biography even gave a wrong date for his first wedding.

I'm not much for biographies in general; I'm much more of a fiction than a nonfiction fan. Having said that, I did read Alice Cooper's "Golf Monster," which was interesting. He did name-drop quite a bit while talking about his career, but his namedropping wasn't quite what you'd expect. It was not his contemporaries, but old Hollywood stars that he rubbed shoulders with like Groucho Marx and Mae West. I think he enjoyed that the old guard of entertainment got the vaudeville references in his act that the mainstream completely missed. Fun read!

I also plan to read Ace Frehley's bio soon.

I'm amazed by how great most of these guys have always been once their books come out. A few stand-out - I read Tyler's book after getting it for £2 in a discount store and really enjoyed it, Keith Richards' "Life" is pretty good but I preferred the Bokris bio of him; Slash's auto is enjoyable and seems to be a lot more honest than the Stenning bio. Justice for All by Joel McIver starts well but he hates everything from Black album onwards and is shows and yup, Lemmy's good for an evening and a pint. Lots of the others do appear to be the same story, especially around the Motley Rose era, but with the drummer as the star with a few other people just sort of milling around and doing lots of drugs and girls and nearly dying and selling millions of albums and living in a horrible house................!