9:30 Coffee Break: Autobiographical Musicians
by Jill Riley
March 16, 2015
As Kim Gordon's memoir, Girl in a Band, sits at No. 2 in this week's New York Times bestseller list, Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney has announced her autobiography, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, will come out on Oct. 27 of this year.
Brownstein has said the book ends at about the point Sleater-Kinney went on hiatus in 2006. The book doesn't include much about Brownstein's work on Portlandia; given that timeline, it also doesn't include mention of the reunited Sleater-Kinney.
But when it comes to books, Gordon and Brownstein are not alone as musicians who have written autobiographies. A number of artists have committed first-person accounts of their lives and careers to the printed page.
So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs by artists who have written autobiographies would you like to hear? Send us your requests.
Songs Played
Mike Doughty - "Looking at the World From the Bottom of the Well"
(The Book of Drugs)
The Runaways - "Cherry Bomb"
(Cherie Currie, Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway)
The Rolling Stones - "Jumpin Jack Flash"
(Keith Richards, Life)
Eels - "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" (in-studio Prince cover)>
(Mark Oliver Everett, Things the Grandchildren Should Know)
The Smiths - "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side"
(Morrissey, Autobiography)
The Beach Boys - "Wouldn't it Be Nice"
(Brian Wilson, Wouldn't it be Nice)
Do you deserve a Coffee Break? Jill and Steve think you do and want to bring treats from Gigi's Café to your workplace. Send us an email: CoffeeBreak@thecurrent.org.