New rock and not-quite-rock memoirs and bios

A memoir from Courtney Love, slated for fall 2012, has been postponed.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Duran Duran’s John Taylor, right, has written the memoir “In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran,” which is being published this month. This 2011 photograph shows him with his original Duran Duran bandmates, minus guitarist Andy Taylor, who published the memoir “Wild Boy” in 2008.  (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

In his L.A. Times review, David L. Ulin writes that Neil Young’s memoir, “Waging Heavy Peace,” is “one of the most idiosyncratic rockstar autobiographies” he’s ever read. Review  (David Fitzgerald / Los Angeles Times)

The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger has not yet followed in bandmate Keith Richards’ footsteps with a memoir, but October sees the publication of the biography “Mick Jagger” by Philip Norman.  (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)