Cerphe's Up: A Musical Life with Bruce Springsteen, Little Feat, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, CSNY, and Many More
by Cerphe Colwell with Stephen Moore
Hardcover
From the publisher's website:
Cerphe’s Up is an incisive musical memoir by Cerphe Colwell, a
renowned rock radio broadcaster for more than forty-five years in
Washington, DC. Cerphe shares his life as a rock radio insider in rich
detail and previously unpublished photographs. His story includes
promotion and friendship with a young unknown Bruce Springsteen; his
years at radio station WHFS 102.3 as it blossomed in a new freeform
format; candid interviews with Little Feat’s Lowell George, Tom Waits,
Nils Lofgren, Stevie Nicks, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Steven Van Zandt,
Robert Plant, Danny Kortchmar, Seldom Scene’s John Duffey, and many
others; hanging out with George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Van
Morrison, John Entwistle, Jackson Browne, and many more; testifying on
Capitol Hill with friend Frank Zappa during the “Porn Rock” hearings;
and managing the radio syndication of both G. Gordon Liddy and Howard
Stern. Player listings and selected performances at legendary DC music
clubs Childe Harold and Cellar Door are also chronicled.
Cerphe’s Up
is both historically significant and a fun, revealing ride with some of
the greatest rock-and-roll highfliers of the twentieth century. Cerphe’s Up belongs on the reading list of every rock fan, musician, and serious music scholar.
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