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This was my selection for July‘s Titles and Tunes. A quick and humorous read - bittersweet knowing Carrie isnt with us anymore. Her personality shines here - what a vibrant, sharp and funny woman - and wow, her incarnation as Leia really did follow her for every day of her life. Loved the shade she threw about that!

Finished yesterday, my July #TitlesAndTunes pick for #SexDrugsAndRockNRoll & I loved it! Although metal has never been my thing per se, I did recognize most all of the references that Hendrix does so well. You really have to be okay with gore for his books-although for claustrophobic me, there‘s a part when our MC Kris is trying to get out of a tight underground situation (bats & bugs included) that had me whimpering like a baby in a good way!😱🤣

This one DEFINITELY fits the bill for #TitlesAndTunes #SexDrugsAndRockNRoll Cherie shares growing up in the 70‘s being heavily influenced by David Bowie, her addiction to drugs, her abandonment of rules & approval and remarkable recovery.
Despite the appearance of leading a glamorous existence , Cherie Curie‘s life was messy, chaotic and troubled. Plenty of trauma & harrowing stories 🙌🏻🖤TW: violent rape 👇🏼

Ok so not a typical pick but this book that chronicles the lives of women who were able to obtain an abortion compared to those who were turned away has sex, a small amount of drugs, and not really much rock n‘ roll. plenty of melancholy tunes that could accompany this but I‘m going with rock n roll Joan Jett‘s Bad Reputation - for women leading lives they want. #Titlesandtunes #sexdrugsandrocknroll

Soft pick, since I prefer Nothombs original stories over the biographical ones. But it's still Amelie Nothomb and I do have a very soft spot for her. She's an autobuy, whatever she writes. Actually, this is a very personal book, since she writes the life story of her father. I was surprised to find out that you can visit the place belonging to her family (where the first half of the book is set as well). Maybe I should go there at some point...

I loved this, my #titlesandtunes pick for #sexdrugsandrocknroll. It certainly wasn‘t on the seedy side, despite Esme living in squats in the 70s and designing see-through outfits; it just seems as though she has enjoyed every minute of a fabulous life, and is still doing so!

This also works for a couple of other challenges too:

#pop23 #acelebritymemoir
#52books23 #afashionablecharacter

There were so many emotions that this book brought me, took me down the rabbit hole of the juxtaposition of white artists wanting the soulful black sound as backup on their records all while taking the credit as front men, or still flying their confederate flags and singing their southern rock anthems. Merry Clayton added her beautiful vocals and epic scream to one of the most famous rock songs-The Rolling Stones‘ Gimme Shelter. ⬇️⬇️

Pulled this song right from one of my playlists. Definitely represents the drugs part of #sexdrugsandrocknroll
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https://spotify.link/yvV1BmgQ6Ab

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#SexDrugsAndRockNRoll and #MountTBR pointed me to the tagged book, which in turn made me think of the entirely unrelated -apart from the title song.

Can't link to the Spotify version right now, sorry. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XN7iEFVLf5c

@BarbaraBB @Cinfhen

Squeaking in my #titlesandtunes for July. Focusing on the sex in #sexdrugsandrocknroll. A book about a sex therapy transcriptionist and a classic song about holding out for a partner with a 'slow hand.'
@BarbaraBB @Cinfhen