I spent the morning at the public exhibition of the contents of Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch (for an auction that has since been cancelled–if it was ever intended to actually happen in the first place). The visit started off kitschy and entertaining, but by the end, the whole thing just seemed like the detritus of […]
posted 24 April 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
(New to the countdown? Catch up here.) We return from the commercial break with an interview clip of Terence Trent D’Arby, looking impossibly young. He appears to be sitting in the hallway of an awards show (the background includes both a folding chair and a guy in a tuxedo). “Nowadays you can make three albums,” […]
posted 23 April 2009 in 1988. 8 comments
For your reading pleasure on this hot Monday, an episode in celebrity medicine from The Andy Warhol Diaries: Sunday, December 19, 1976 Went to work (magazines and newspapers for week $26). Lou Reed called and that was the drama of the day. He’d come back from a successful tour, he was a big hit in […]
posted 20 April 2009 in Excerpts. no comments yet
Marching on with the flipwalks, and this time I’m particularly pleased with the photograph. A teaser to whet your appetite: To see the complete image, click here. I made a few tweaks to my standard format this time. The first is that the page for flipwalk #40 has a link to a larger version of […]
posted 17 April 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
I had hoped to return to the 1988 countdown today, but it looks like that’ll be delayed another week; my apologies. In the meantime, since Phil Spector is in the news this week, having been convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson, may I direct you to this long, fascinating email I got from him […]
posted 15 April 2009 in Archives, News. no comments yet
I am delighted to announce that my 2006 book, Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton’s Little John?: Music’s Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed, has been translated into German. “Is the title all one word?” asked one friend. Alas, no, and surprisingly to me, it’s not even all German: it’s Do You Want to Know […]
posted 13 April 2009 in Buy My Stuff. no comments yet
It’s been almost two months since I posted a flipwalk; if you’re new to the project, you can catch up here. That’s a blown-up detail from the final image; for the story of my hour-long random peregrination and the resulting picture, you can click here.
posted 10 April 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Kurt Cobain died fifteen years ago this week. When I heard the news, I bolted from the office of Details magazine (my then-employer) and went home to Brooklyn to find my Nirvana notebooks. I had toured around Germany with Nirvana in 1991, as Nevermind was becoming a blockbuster hit, and done another extensive interview with […]
posted 8 April 2009 in Archives, Articles. 2 comments
I recently wondered what album had the highest differential between the times I listened to before my high school graduation to times I listened to it after that. The answer, I decided, was Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut. It was one of the first three albums I ever owned, and was in heavy rotation in […]
posted 7 April 2009 in Tasty Bits. 5 comments
Prince has a new album out: another three-disc package (his fifth, by my count). My review is in the latest issue of Rolling Stone; you can also read it now on their website. A few other things Prince and Woody Allen have in common: (1) they’re short (2) they’re basketball fans (3) they were funnier […]
posted 2 April 2009 in Outside, Reviews. no comments yet
