{"id":7628,"date":"2025-12-24T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/uncut-top-10-books-of-2025-152643\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:44:16","slug":"uncut-top-10-books-of-2025-152643","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/uncut-top-10-books-of-2025-152643\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncut\u2019s Top 10 books of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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10 OUR SECRETS ARE THE SAME
JIM KERR & CHARLIE BURCHILL WITH GRAEME THOMSON
CONSTABLE <\/strong>
Friends since their early childhood in Glasgow\u2019s Southside, Kerr and Burchill are the core of Simple Minds, perhaps because their personalities are complementary. Jim is a loner, while Charlie is more sociable. Graeme Thomson, whose Themes For Great Cities did much to rehabilitate the Minds\u2019 critical reputation, offers a sympathetic frame for the duo\u2019s tale in this engaging oral history. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10 OUR SECRETS ARE THE SAME
JIM KERR & CHARLIE BURCHILL WITH GRAEME THOMSON
CONSTABLE <\/strong>
Friends since their early childhood in Glasgow\u2019s Southside, Kerr and Burchill are the core of Simple Minds, perhaps because their personalities are complementary. Jim is a loner, while Charlie is more sociable. Graeme Thomson, whose Themes For Great Cities did much to rehabilitate the Minds\u2019 critical reputation, offers a sympathetic frame for the duo\u2019s tale in this engaging oral history. <\/p>\n

9 RUMOURS OF MY DEMISE
EVAN DANDO
FABER <\/strong>
The Lemonhead\u2019s memoir is an unapologetic ramble through a career characterised by luck and carelessness. Dando has an ambivalent attitude to fame, while also enjoying more than a few breaths of the rarefied air. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of egotistical to say that you don\u2019t have a big ego,\u201d he suggests of a life spent asking \u201cwhy not?\u201d when more cautious minds might have wondered \u201cwhy?\u201d <\/p>\n

8 PAUL WELLER: DANCING THROUGH THE FIRE
DAN JENNINGS
CONSTABLE <\/strong>
Dan Jennings hosts a podcast about Paul Weller and his granular oral history is culled from over 200 hours of interviews. It\u2019s brisk and intimate, with contributions from all of The Jam, Weller\u2019s family and friends. The early family memories are priceless: the Beatles-obsessed Weller knocking out tunes on an old upright piano with his cat sitting on the lid and his mum saying, \u201cIt\u2019s fucking Beethoven.\u201d <\/p>\n

7 BLESS ME FATHER: A LIFE STORY
KEVIN ROWLAND
EBURY SPOTLIGHT <\/strong>
Regrets? Kevin Rowland has a few. Ditching Dexys\u2019 dandyish attire (jodhpurs, baseball uniforms, bolero jackets) to fit in on the 2 Tone tour stopped the Midnight Runners being the most culturally significant, coolest group of the 1980s, he suggests. The singer\u2019s personal inventory is even harsher, as nagging alienation continually trumps contentment. \u201cPeople don\u2019t change unless they have to,\u201d says Rowland. \u201cI had to.\u201d <\/p>\n

6 THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU
NEKO CASE
HEADLINE <\/strong>
Case takes no prisoners in this tough, tender memoir, in which music is a welcome refuge from a childhood of \u201cbottomless loneliness\u201d. The details of Case\u2019s \u201cferal\u201d upbringing are gothic in their intensity, the central fact being abandonment by her mother, who fakes her own death and then reappears. Life on the road in a van is a welcome escape, though not without its challenges. <\/p>\n

5 LIVING IN THE PRESENT WITH JOHN PRINE
TOM PIAZZA
OMNIBUS PRESS <\/strong>
Treme writer Piazza met with Prine to start work on a collaborative memoir, but the poet laureate of Illinois died six weeks later. The author\u2019s biography is true to the spirit of his diverting conversations with Prine, stitching a life from a number of refracted memories and anecdotes in the manner of Bob Dylan\u2019s Chronicles. A warm and engaging tribute to a great artist. <\/p>\n

4 BREAD OF ANGELS
PATTI SMITH
BLOOMSBURY <\/strong>
Following the success of her artistic memoir Just Kids , here Smith delves into family lore, detailing \u201ca Proustian childhood \u2026 of intermittent quarantine and convalescence\u201d. An early encounter with Rimbaud\u2019s Illuminations at Philadelphia bus station sets her artistic course, leading to her poetic career (via the Chelsea Hotel). Smith\u2019s impressionistic memoir touches on her musical breakthrough and ends with a dramatic revelation when she explores her DNA.<\/p>\n

3 THE TREMOLO DIARIES
JUSTIN CURRIE
NEW MODERN <\/strong>
The Del Amitri frontman\u2019s diagnosis with Parkinson\u2019s disease haunts the pages of this moving road diary, following the band on tours of the US and Europe. The dull rituals of the musician\u2019s life dominate, but the gloom is dispelled by Currie\u2019s mordant wit. Freed from the need to be diplomatic, Currie is bracingly acerbic about the reality of life on and off the tourbus. <\/p>\n

2 JOHN & PAUL: A LOVE STORY IN SONGS
IAN LESLIE
FABER <\/strong>
To understand the genius of The Beatles, Leslie reduces them to a duo, focusing on the intense relationship between Lennon and McCartney, which he calls a romance. He is more persuasive when dissecting the songs, noting the influence of girl groups and how, with their unaffected playfulness, The Beatles invented a new way of being. <\/p>\n

1 THE COLONEL AND THE KING
PETER GURALNICK
WHITE RABBIT <\/strong>
With his authoritative two-volume biography of Elvis, and another on Sam Phillips, Guralnick has established himself as the official chronicler of The King. Granted access to the archive of Presley\u2019s manager Colonel Tom Parker, he illuminates their relationship, showing how a Dutch runaway who learned his craft promoting carnivals made Presley the most popular entertainer in the world. Both men were loyal to each other, and in what Guralnick terms \u201ca shared tragedy\u201d, both were undone by money. Presley couldn\u2019t stop spending it, Parker was addicted to gambling. An introvert pretending to be an extrovert, the Colonel rewrote the rules of the game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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