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Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Book

From 1969-1981 Ben Fong-Torres wrote for Rolling Stone magazine and this book collects together some of his celebrity interviews and profiles the stories behind them and the reactions to them. The artists featured include Jim Morrison Ike and Tina Turner Marvin Gaye and the Rolling Stones.Read More

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    Where rock scribes are concerned, you've got provocateurs of the Lester Bangs school, academics of the Greil Marcus variety, and the nuts-and-bolts sorts who, while perhaps less colorful wordsmiths, excel at capturing their subjects by putting them at ease. Early Rolling Stone contributor/editor Ben Fong-Torres may be the best known and most durable member of that third school. Not Fade Away gathers 34 Fong-Torres profiles and interviews ranging from Woodstock-era pieces centering on Sly Stone and Janis Joplin to '80s articles on Eddie Murphy and Tom Hanks. Despite the occasional foray into film writing, Not Fade Away centers around rock & roll. Solid journalist that he is, Fong-Torres can stretch from James Brown to Neil Diamond, from Bob Dylan to Iggy Pop--all without straining. Vignettes update and add color to Fong-Torres's out-of-the-archives articles. --Steven Stolder

  • Product Description

    From 1969 to 1981, Ben Fong-Torres was one of the first "star" writers on staff at Rolling Stone - the "scruffy rock journal" that metamorphosed into one of the most powerful voices of a generation. Now in this fascinating book, Fong-Torres revisits his most intriguing celebrity interviews and profiles, and - for the first time - tells the revealing stories behind the stories, the stars, his writing process, and life at Rolling Stone.

  • 0879305908
  • 9780879305901
  • Ben Fong-Torres
  • 30 May 2007
  • Backbeat Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 350
  • illustrated edition
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