My fondest wish is that someday in the not-too-distant future, somebody will make a video biography of me. Friends and colleagues will speak glowingly of my work as images of me typing, reading and ...

Back in 2012, The A.V. Club asked if there was life left in the world of music memoirs. On one hand, it was obviously a rhetorical question—is anyone really going to say, “No, no more autobiographies ...