There's no doubt that music fans enjoy telling tales of their favorite rock gods' outrageous behavior as much as they love listening to those artists' tunes. But flip open to almost any page of Lost Genius, a biography by Kevin Bazzana (recently released in paperback) about twentieth-century piano prodigy Ervin Nyiregyházi, and you’ll find that rockers didn’t invent the bad-boy thing. We take a look at Lost Genius as well as three other recent memoirs and biographies to see which musicians have really earned their reputations.