However, our musicians don't generally write and it is an extremely pleasant surprise to find two utterly unputdownable books written by two practising musicians.
The book is what every official biography should be: it covers all aspects of the subject's life and is brutally honest without white-washing facts, and it is unputdownable, excerpts...
But in whatever template it comes, it has a tendency to be intoxicating, unputdownable, the chameleonic faeces syndrome and tantalizing on most people.