The Magic Years: Scenes From A Rock-and-Roll Life
Trade Paperback
From the publisher's website:
Jonathan Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of
every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager
for Bob Dylan and the Band in the ’60s, producer of major films in the
’70s, an executive at Merrill-Lynch in the ’80s, creator of the
Internet’s first video-on-demand service in the ’90s, and a cultural
critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium. His is
a lifetime marked not only by good timing but by impeccable
instincts—from the folk scene to Woodstock, Hollywood’s rebellious film
movement, and beyond.
With cameos by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Martin Scorsese, and countless other icons, The Magic Years is both a rock memoir and a work of cultural criticism from a key player who watched a nation turn from idealism to nihilism. Taplin offers a clear-eyed roadmap of how we got here and makes a convincing case for art’s power to deliver us from “passionless detachment” and rekindle our humanism.
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