Match the Music Star With Their Memoir (Part 2) Quiz

Answer: Steve Tyler

The title of Steve Tyler's memoir "Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir" (2011) comes from a lyric ("Does the noise in my head bother you") in their 1997 song "Something's Gotta Give" off the album "Nine Lives". Written in an almost stream-of-consciousness fashion, it does offer many anecdotal surprises such as when in 2008, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones approached him about forming a new band, and even though they rehearsed, the attempt was eventually abandoned.

Answer: Grace Jones

Grace Jones' memoir, titled "I'll Never Write My Memoirs", was published in 2015, and covers her life span from early on, growing up in a strict religious household in Jamaica, to pursuing a modeling career in her teens in Syracuse, to attaining fame 1960s and early 1970s, as a famously androgynous model in Paris. And then, she began a music career in the disco era, pioneering an art-pop, post-disco sound.

Answer: Nigel John Taylor

Nigel John Taylor was the bassist and co-founder of the iconic pop rock band Duran Duran. His 2012 memoir, "In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran", begins with his working-class childhood in Birmingham, England, and grew to love music particularly that of Roxy Music and David Bowie.

He learned to play guitar and bass, and in 1978, he and his best friend, Nick Rhodes, formed Duran Duran. He recounts the global fame that group reached, which led to his struggle with addiction, and his journey through drug and alcohol rehab and eventual sobriety in the mid 1990s.

Answer: Keith Richards

Keith Richards' memoir, simply titled, "Life", was published in 2010. The iconic guitarist, songwriter and co-founder of The Rolling Stones, grew up in post-World War II England, admiring American music artists like Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry. He met Mick Jagger when they were young boys in Kent, went to Wentworth Primary School, and then lost touch for several years.

They reunited by chance in 1961 at a railway station where Keith was on his way to art school, and Mick was heading to class at the London School of Economics.

They discovered their shared love of the same music, exchanged information, and soon began playing music together with other musicians. Next stop... the 1960s British Invasion music explosion, and Richards provides insight into his creative collaboration with Jagger in songwriting.

He also gets into the wild times, as well as discussing the craftmanship of musicianship and composing and technique.

Answer: David Bowie

David Bowie's signed, original limited edition in 2002 of his "Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust" sold out almost immediately, and is a now rare and expensive book. An anniversary edition was released in 2022 on the 50th anniversary of the album's release; it had a new larger format, unabridged.

It features over 600 photographs from Mick Rock, David Bowie's official photographer. They are accompanied by David Bowie's own written context-his personal memories, his insights into the inspirations and creative process and origins behind Ziggy Stardust and to the character's final retirement.

Answer: Alicia Keys

Alicia Keys' memoir, "More Myself: A Journey", was published in 2020 and was an Oprah book. Collaborating with Michelle Burford the Keys' book documents her childhood in Hell's Kitchen and Harlem raised by a single mother, and she writes about growing up biracial and finding her identity in two worlds.

Her love of music and piano came at an early age, and by 2001, her debut album "Songs in A Minor" sold millions and won her five Grammy Awards.

Answer: Duke Ellington

The title of "Music is My Mistress" (1973) comes from Duke Ellington's famous quote, "Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one," indicating just how devoted to music he is. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington, D.C. in 1899) he writes about the spiritual calling music was to him, "To me, music is a language that speaks to all men and women, and God is its translator." He writes a great deal about all the singers, musicians, songwriters that he collaborated with, and in particular, Billy Strayhorn, his longtime arranger and co-composer perhaps mostly famous for "Take the 'A' Train".

Answer: Dionne Warwick

Dionne Warwick's memoir "My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography" was published in 2010, and highlights her musical family background, full of other successful singers, including her mother Lee Drinkard Warrick, her aunt, Cissy Houston, and her cousin Whitney Houston.

She even mentions in the book that opera diva Leontyne Price is a maternal cousin. Dionne Warwick is one of my three favorite female singers of all time. Grew up listening to her greatest hits album, which was my Dad's. Meeting Burt Bacharach and Hal David had been her big break, as they began writing songs specifically for her voice.

Answer: John Lydon

Published in 1994, "Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs" is John Lydon's autobiography; you might know him by his stage name-Johnny Rotten, the former frontman of the famous punk rock band, The Sex Pistols. The book accounts for his working-class Irish immigrant family childhood in London, and takes us up to the formation and rapid ascent of the Sex Pistols in 1975. And as one might imagine there were many internal conflicts during the Sex Pistols time in the limelight: Lydon's contentious feeling about what he felt was bassist Glen Matlock's poor musical taste; Lydon suing their manager Malcolm McLaren; and Lydon's difficult friend and bandmate Sid Vicious. Lydon brutally details Sid's heroin addiction with girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

Answer: Anthony Kiedis

The title of Anthony Kiedis's memoir comes from the title of the 1999 song "Scar Tissue", by the band he fronted, The Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's a metaphor for the damage he suffered in his youth with addiction to drugs at a very early age, and the healing journey he embarked on.

The memoir does describe the forming of the band by Kiedis and his schoolmates Flea, Hillel Slovak, and Jack Irons, and how his early drug addiction reared its terrible head as it recurred with him and the band during the height of their success.