The music and media industries have come together to pay tribute to the rock-‘n’ roller-turned writer Richie Taylor who died yesterday.

We all have our insecurities but you’d think being one of the world’s most successful performers with 17 Grammys, 125m record sales, $300m (€230m) in the bank, and a bottom that has its own fan club would cushion even the shakiest self-confidence.

High-profile drug deaths, marital break-ups, musical satire and aeroplane misdeeds, 2010 will certainly be remembered as a year of celebrity meltdown, writes Richie Taylor