Pete Townshend's autobiography "Who I Am"

http://www.amazon.com/Who-I-Am-A-Memoir/dp/006212725X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
 
Here's a guy not afraid to reveal his own failings, warts & all, while being generous to a fault when mentioning other people, especially his bandmates.
 
Normally with autobiographies from people who made it big, the first half of the book is always interesting but it gets a bit bland after the stage where they become rich and settle into a comfortable lifestyle. Not so much with Townshend though. His songwriting royalties were held back from him until as late as 1977. So the boats and other boring stuff enter the story quite a long way in.
 
It may seem like stating the obvious to say that this story is told in the first-person (after all it is an autobiography), but what I am trying to imply is that the man is writing about himself and his obsessions, from his own point of view. Don't expect a history of The Who.
 
But anyway I enjoyed the book. It got mixed reviews, so check them out before you decide to buy it.

A fellow tinnitus sufferer! Although his is of an order many times more serious than mine, having had his ears blown up by Keith Moon's explosives live on TV.