NEW YORK (AP) — Cameron Crowe was planning to compile a few of his previous music interviews for a ebook when he realized he had a extra intimate story to inform.
Avid Reader Press introduced Thursday that the Oscar-winning filmmaker and onetime Rolling Stone journalist may have a memoir out Oct. 28. It is known as “The Uncool.”
“I spent the last decade or so re-interviewing those early subjects like ( David) Bowie and Fleetwood Mac,Joni Mitchell and Led Zeppelin,” Crowe advised The Related Press in a latest e-mail. “The act of looking back on their younger selves brought out the same in me. The book split into two, the first one being a personal memoir. The second one will come out next year, with a lot of new interview material.”
Crowe, 67, is thought for such movies as “Jerry Maguire,” “Singles” and “Almost Famous,” a fictionalized tackle his years within the Nineteen Seventies as a teen contributor to Rolling Stone that introduced him an Academy Award for greatest unique screenplay. Crowe can be the creator of “Conversations with Wilder,” a ebook of interviews with director Billy Wilder.
In keeping with Avid Reader, a Simon & Schuster imprint, Crowe’s memoir will provide “a front-row ticket to the 1970s.”
“He spends his teens dodging bouncers and turning down cocaine from roadies and rock stars,” the writer’s assertion reads partially. “He talks his San Diego City College journalism teacher into giving him class credit for his road trip covering Led Zeppelin’s 1975 tour, which lands him — and the band — on the front cover of Rolling Stone. He embeds with publicity-shy David Bowie for eighteen months as the sequestered genius transforms himself: ‘Young enough to be honest!’ Bowie declares of Crowe.”
