With the exception of maybe Jennifer Lawrence and Nic Cage, are there any film stars of the last 20 or 30 years whose autobiographies you would actually want to read?
Would any of them have anything interesting to say?
It's different with music. There's an honesty or an arrogance about musicians that often leads to riveting prose. The best biopic of 2014 was Viv Albertine's astonishingly candid Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys
So come 2015 who will be opening up to us? For the hipsters the key text will no doubt be Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band. The former Sonic Youth front woman has written a book about the New York music scene in the eighties and nineties, the rise of alternative rock and her relationship with fellow band member Thurston Moore. "At the heart of the book is the examination of what partnership means - and what happens when it dissolves," the press release says. Like we said, honest.
But that's not the only music biography we're looking forward to in 2015. Everything but the Girl's Tracey Thorn follows up her debut Bedsit Disco Queen with Naked at the Albert Hall in April (Virago). The subtitle The Inside Story of Singing should give you a flavour of what to expect. Dusty Springfield, Dennis Potter and The X Factor all turn up.
Closer to home Belle and Sebastian co-founder Stuart David has written a memoir, In the All Night Cafe (Little Brown, April) that revisits 1990s Glasgow and the group's origins. There's also talk of a new Looper album into the bargain.
But the loudest music memoir of 2015 will surely be Noddy Holder's. Fresh from banking this year's royalty cheque for Merry Christmas Everybody, Sir Nod will give us The World According To Noddy: Life Lessons Learned In and Out of Rock & Roll in April. Why? Coz he luvs us.
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