For music fans and intrigued bystanders alike, the access-all-areas autobiography provides an unprecedented insight into the lives of our musical heroes. Even at a time when the roving eye of the worlds media is more omnipresent than ever, the official autobiography still manages to give us something that other sources would never be able to extract the innermost thoughts and experiences of the individual in question. Over the years, there have been some brilliant, emotive and creative autobiographies (Patti Smith Just Kids, Anthony Kiedis Scar Tissue), and some not so great exercises of self-indulgence (Scott Weiland Not Dead And Not For Sale), the latter reminding us that a bulging ego and an empty piece of paper isnt necessarily the best combination. However, in compiling the list of the ten music autobiographies that we would most love to get our hands on, we must do so with the assumption that we, as fans, would be satisfied with the content. In reality, some of these havent been written and some of these wont ever be written for one reason or another (death being the most excusable). In some instances, the absence of these accounts from our bookshelves may be no bad thing in helping to preserve the myth and mystery that so crucially surrounds certain musical figures. The following list is, therefore, compiled on the basis of whose life stories would be the most intriguing and enthralling if laid bare between the two covers of a book.