Backing into the spotlight.Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star Tracey Thorn Virago, 384pp, £13.99 It’s no surprise that Bedsit Disco Queen is an immensely likeable book. Everything but the Girl are (were?) an immensely likeable band and Tracey Thorn is an immensely likeable person – at least, she comes across that way in her songwriting, singing, interviews and, now, her autobiography. Caitlin Moran calls her “the Alan Bennett of pop memoirists” and the writer and the musician do have a great deal in common. Like Bennett, Thorn is ... Read More