In 2009, James and the surviving Shondells, Gray, Vale and Rosman, reunited to record music for a soundtrack of a proposed film based on James ' autobiography, Me, the Mob, and the Music, released in February 2010.

In the autumn of 2003, Sting released his autobiography, Broken Music.

* Schnabel's book My Life and Music ( reprinted 1988 ; Mineola, NY: Dover Publications ; ISBN 0-486-25571-9 ), is a mixture of autobiography and commentary on a variety of musical subjects.

His autobiography Broken Music was published in October.

His autobiography is titled Notes sans musique ( Notes Without Music ), later revised as Ma vie heureuse ( My Happy Life ).

Shankar opened a Western branch of the Kinnara School of Music in Los Angeles, California, in May 1967, and published an autobiography, My Music, My Life, in 1968.

His autobiography, The Hank Snow Story, was published in 1994, and later The Hank Snow Country Music Centre opened near his ancestral home in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.

In February 2010, an autobiography Me, The Mob, and The Music was published.

According to Antheil's autobiography The Bad Boy of Music ( 1945 ), he was " so crazy about music ", that his mother sent him to the countryside where no pianos were available.

In 1945, he published his autobiography Bad Boy of Music, which became a bestseller.

In his autobiography, Nathaniel Shilkret, Manager of the Victor's Foreign Department from about 1920 through 1926 and then Director of Light Music until 1933, notes that about a year after he hired Peer, Peer asked for a raise, which Shilkret approved.

Willie " The Lion " Smith ( not her husband ) explained the background to that recording in his ( ghosted ) autobiography, Music on My Mind.

His friend Duke Ellington recalled Eckstine's artistry in his 1973 autobiography Music is My Mistress: " Eckstine-style love songs opened new lines of communication for the man in the man-woman merry-go-round, and blues a la B were the essence of cool.

In 1948 his autobiography We Called It Music was published.

Janis Ian, who attended the High School of Music and Art in New York at the same time as Nyro, discussed her friendship with Nyro during the late 1960s in her autobiography, Society's Child.

In 2007, King published her autobiography The Oona King Diaries: House Music.

In 2011 Schuller published the first volume of a two-volume autobiography, Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty.

His autobiography, Nor Is Not Moved — A Music Arranger's Story, was nearly complete at the time of his death in New York City, and was edited and published later ( 1999 ) in the book The Broadway Sound ISBN 1-58046-022-4.

His autobiography, entitled Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem ( Serpent's Tail books, London ), was released in September 2009.

In 2006, the MK Music imprint was established, by Mick Karn and Debi Zornes — and beginning with 2006's Three Part Species, all releases, including the autobiography, have the MK Music logo on them.

Among celebrities who admitted using speedballs are Chet Baker ( in the documentary film Let's Get Lost ), Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson ( in the documentary Behind The Music ), Cream bassist Jack Bruce ( as stated in an interview with Daily Record in 2009 ), Nikki Sixx ( in The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star and The Dirt ), Anthony Kiedis ( in his autobiography Scar Tissue ), David Crosby ( in his autobiography Long Time Gone ), Miles Davis, and Slash ( in his autobiography Slash ).

Yet he is right when he claims in his autobiography that he drew the real features of the man, his tender and selfless motives and his rugged fearless strength.

Kurosawa has commented on the lasting sense of loss he felt at his brother's death and the chapter of his autobiography that describes it — written nearly half a century after the event — is titled, " A Story I Don't Want to Tell.

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

An autobiography ( from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write ) is an account of the life of a person, written by its subject.

Closely associated with autobiography ( and sometimes difficult to precisely distinguish from it ) is the form of memoir.

John Henry Newman's autobiography ( first published in 1864 ) is entitled Apologia Pro Vita Sua in reference to this tradition.

Another autobiography of the period is De vita propria, by the Italian physician and astrologer Gerolamo Cardano ( 1574 ).

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

A memoir is slightly different in character from an autobiography.

One early example is that of Leonor López de Córdoba ( 1362 – 1420 ) who wrote what is supposed to be the first autobiography in Spanish.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is a well-known modern example of fictional autobiography.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

*" The course of life is unpredictable ... no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Lerner wrote in his autobiography ( as quoted by The New York Times ): " All I can say is that if I had no flair for marriage, I also had no flair for bachelorhood.

Caligula's sister, Agrippina the Younger, wrote an autobiography that certainly included a detailed explanation of Caligula's reign, but it too is lost.

In his autobiography, Freedom In Exile, he states that if Tibet is not free, he " will reincarnate elsewhere.

His films include To Hell and Back, the autobiography of Audie Murphy, who is considered the most decorated soldier in the military history of the United States ; John Wayne's war film The Green Berets ( 1968 ), and opposite Gregory Peck in the space story Marooned about three stranded astronauts.

This is how Wright described, in his autobiography, the influence of these exercises on his approach to design: " For several years I sat at the little Kindergarten table-top.

Douglass ' best-known work is his first autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, published in 1845.

* Robert Graves ' novel I, Claudius is written as a recently-discovered autobiography penned by the late Emperor.

With the help of a New York writer, he is working on an autobiography.

Helen reflects upon this coincidence in her first autobiography, stating " that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.