Bruce Springsteen scrapped his plans for a tell-all memoir after realising the market was saturated with rock star autobiographies.
The Boss decided to put his colourful life story down on paper, but soon decided to put the project on the back burner.
However, the Dancing In The Dark legend felt compelled to rip up the manuscript after Neil Young and The Who star Pete Townshend both decided to write books.
He tells Britain's Daily Mirror, "I wrote a little bit but I haven't looked at it in quite a while.
"But then I look in the paper and see everyone else is writing one. Pete Townshend is writing one, Neil Young has got one coming I thought, f**k it, I'm not going to do one too."