With musicians off the road for most of the last two years, a bumper crop of their autobiographies is to be expected over the next little while.

This year saw a few stadium-fillers switch to introspective mode, including Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, Bruce Springsteen foil Stevie Van Zandt, folk guitar god Richard Thompson and the woman most relevant in Australia for writing The Horses by Daryl Braithwaite, Rickie Lee Jones.