There actually aren’t sufficient movies the place the hero is a music journalist. However due to Cameron Crowe, there may be not less than one: 2000’s Oscar-winning Virtually Well-known, which helped to deliver some much-needed legitimacy to the notion of asking philosophical inquiries to spaced-out guitarists for a residing.
Crowe, in fact, was as soon as that teenage music journalist himself: Rolling Stone’s youngest ever correspondent, charming his method into the boldness of bands like The Allman Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles and Led Zeppelin.
In 1981, he wrote Quick Occasions At Ridgemont Excessive, which was was a cult film of the identical title. Crowe quickly turned an acclaimed movie director himself, making Singles, Jerry Maguire, Virtually Well-known and Vanilla Sky amongst others, earlier than ultimately gravitating again in the direction of the music world with documentaries about Pearl Jam and David Crosby, and an upcoming biopic of Joni Mitchell.
Now he’s about to publish his memoir, The Uncool, which takes us again to these halcyon ’70s days, with a canopy endorsement from Stevie Nicks.
And whereas he’s in reflective temper, he’s kindly submitted to a mild grilling from you, the Uncut readers. So, what do you wish to ask a titan of each the music writing and movie directing worlds? E mail your inquiries to audiencewith@uncut.co.uk by Tuesday (October 7) and Cameron will reply the very best ones in a future situation of Uncut.
