Books like Up and Down with the Rolling Stones

I read this when I was 14 years old, in 1979. There was no internet, very little insider material for young guys and girls to connect to to understand what was really happening in this almost-fantasy world of rock'n'roll royalty. I got the book from my old man for Christmas, and didn't move from my sub-tropically heated, sweaty bedroom (and in Brisbane, Australia at Christmas time it is hot and humid).The stories are sleazy, vindictive, unreliable, and there is plenty of self-pity from Sanchez the dealer/addict, and self-aggrandisement from Sanchez the 'pretend somebody'. Drugs will give you that illusion too, and that is how he writes: "I was there, I knew what was happening, and for a time I was respected". Except he wasn't. Sanchez was a gopher, so the whole book needs to be put into that framework. Once you are in the mindset that you are reading the memoirs of a narrator for whom you will share little or no empathy, and yet he writes as if he is the one aggrieved, then you may enjoy this rollercoaster ride.