LISTEN: Marc Spitz on WNYC’s Soundcheck
- on September 22, 2011
- by Marc Spitz
Last year, Rolling Stones fans got the lowdown on guitarist Keith Richards through his memoir “Life.” Now, a new book aims to tell Mick Jagger’s side of the story too.
Read More»LISTEN: Marc Interviews Chess Records Scion Marshall Chess
- on September 22, 2011
- by Marc Spitz
In a snippet from this long, great chat with the Chess Records scion turned Rolling Stones Records runner, Chess recalls first meeting the band in the legendary Chicago studios in 1964 and how the locals perceived these strange, British invaders and vice versa.
Read More»LISTEN: Marc Interviews Notorious Journalist Mick Farren
- on September 15, 2011
- by Marc Spitz
Farren warned me that he thought Jagger was the “Fredo Corleone” of the Stones so I broke the ice asking him to elaborate as those are the kind of fighting words that I was trying to explore and counter with my thesis. Here Farren gives a rambling by hilarious answer… involving Michael Jackson and Altamont.
Read More»The Homecoming Queen’s Got No Gun
- on September 13, 2011
- by Marc Spitz
Thought collection time, now that the book is out, and the play is up, and I don’t have a drink in my hand. I just signed a pile of Jaggers at Bookmarc while my dogs lingered in the doorway, waiting for treats (Pssst! They have them there, if you’re a dog).
Read More»Are you a Mick or are you a Keith?
- on September 8, 2011
- by Marc Spitz
For much of my life, and I suspect that I’m not alone here among rock and roll fans, I have had days when I was feeling one and not the other. Mick was sophisticated, a little aloof and intellectual, perhaps even dismissive. Mick was unpredictable and slippery. Keith was primal, soulful and pure, trouble prone but cagey, only when it came to evading the Reaper. Otherwise, you could set your watch by Keith’s rock n’ roll soul.
Read More»The New York Observer Interviews Marc Spitz
- on September 8, 2011
- by Marc Spitz
The 41 year-old music journalist-cum-biographer-cum-novelist-cum-playwright laughed from behind his tortoise-shell sunglasses which were concealing a hangover. Though he visibly hasn’t been adhering to his own advice, his writing, as of late, has certainly been prolific. In the last ten years he has written three novels and three biographies, the latest of which, Jagger: Rebel, Rockstar, Rambler, Rogue, is on shelves today, published by Gotham Books.
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