Kim Gordon on Kurt Cobain and Female Icons

If there's one question you should never ask Kim Gordon it's "What's it like to be a girl in a band?", a question she reviles, and one which spawned the title for her newly published memoirs, Girl in a Band. But one could be forgiven for wondering – although her rise to fame as the bassist of iconic noise band Sonic Youth was preceded by that of a number of influential female rock musicians…