It’s a shame Bob Burns didn’t live to enjoy the full financial fruits of his tenure as Lynyrd Skynyrd’s original drummer. Burns left the band in 1974 and spent the rest of his life in obscurity before his death in 2015 at the age of 64.
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An interesting email from Amazon/Kindle Direct Publishing yesterday, regarding my beloved memoir Strange Days: The Adventures of a Grumpy Rock ‘n’ Roll Journalist in Los Angeles:
Congratulations!
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Jim Moginie didn’t know about his Irish heritage until he was in his late 40s and managed to track down his birth parents in suburban Australia.
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HOLLYWOOD GODFATHER: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF BILLY WILKERSON
By W.R. Wilkerson III
Chicago Review Press; $15.99 on Kindle at Amazon.
Billy Wilkerson was the founder of the Hollywood Reporter, a movie trade publication based in Los Angeles.
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Rolling Stones fans will be thrilled by a fascinating subset of items in the upcoming Charlie Watts auction of books and jazz ephemera at Christie’s. Among the 475 lots are eight that were gifts from the late drummer’s bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG
By Bob Dylan
Simon & Schuster, $45 list; or $22.50 at Target and on Amazon at review date.
The new Bob Dylan book looks great and smells better.
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LIKE A ROLLING STONE
A Memoir
By Jann S. Wenner
Little, Brown & Co. $35 list; $17.50 at Target and on Amazon at review date.
“After reading through my tale, do not judge me too harshly. Remember the plain, old authoress, wrinkled and withered with the years.” — Susan McKearney
New Zealand grandmother Susan McKearney makes her literary debut with the stunning memoir Just Me: The Life Story of a Nobody.
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I’m not responding to anymore emails from you, so don’t bother responding. — Jennifer De Chiara, literary agent, New York.
I’m not disappointed that my literary agent Jennifer De Chiara fired off an unprofessional email to me.
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JANUARY 2024 – Here’s a belated update on Artimus’ memoir. We will publish this book whatever it takes. It’s been almost 12 years since I first met with Artimus to discuss a collaboration, and seven years since we submitted the completed manuscript to the publisher for an October 2017 release date.
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