Filmmaker-music journalist Cameron Crowe has a memoir out this fall. It’s called ‘The Uncool'

NEW YORK – Cameron Crowe was readying to compile immoderate of his aged euphony interviews for a publication erstwhile helium realized helium had a much intimate communicative to tell.

Avid Reader Press announced Thursday that the Oscar-winning filmmaker and onetime Rolling Stone writer volition person a memoir retired Oct. 28. It's called “The Uncool.”

“I spent the past decennary oregon truthful re-interviewing those aboriginal subjects similar ( David) Bowie and Fleetwood Mac,Joni Mitchell and Led Zeppelin,” Crowe told The Associated Press successful a caller email. “The enactment of looking backmost connected their younger selves brought retired the aforesaid successful me. The publication divided into two, the archetypal 1 being a idiosyncratic memoir. The 2nd 1 volition travel retired adjacent year, with a batch of caller interrogation material.”

Crowe, 67, is known for specified films arsenic “Jerry Maguire,” “Singles” and “Almost Famous,” a fictionalized instrumentality connected his years successful the 1970s arsenic a teen contributor to Rolling Stone that brought him an Academy Award for champion archetypal screenplay. Crowe is besides the writer of “Conversations with Wilder,” a publication of interviews with manager Billy Wilder.

According to Avid Reader, a Simon & Schuster imprint, Crowe's memoir volition connection “a front-row summons to the 1970s.”

“He spends his teens dodging bouncers and turning down cocaine from roadies and stone stars,” the publisher's connection reads successful part. “He talks his San Diego City College journalism teacher into giving him people recognition for his roadworthy travel covering Led Zeppelin’s 1975 tour, which lands him — and the set — connected the beforehand screen of Rolling Stone. He embeds with publicity-shy David Bowie for eighteen months arsenic the sequestered genius transforms himself: ‘Young capable to beryllium honest!’ Bowie declares of Crowe.”

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