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The magic years : scenes from a rock-and-roll life / Jonathan Taplin.

by Taplin, Jonathan T.

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781.66092 T175m

Taplin, Jonathan T.

Impresarios -- United States -- Biography.

Concert tours -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.

9781597145251 (hc)

xiv, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Lord of the Flies-1962 -- Dylan Goes Electric-1965 -- The Summer of Love-1967 -- Dylan and the Hawks-1967 -- Princeton in Rebellion-1967 -- The Band in Los Angeles-1969 -- Bearsville-1969 -- The Woodstock Festival-1969 -- On the Road with the Band-1970 -- The Concert for Bangladesh-1971 -- The Rolling Stones in Exile-1972 -- Mean Streets-1973 -- Cannes Film Festival-1974 -- The Last Waltz-1976 -- Rolling Thunder and Beyond-1980 -- Under Fire-1980 -- Saving Disney-1984 -- Until the End of the World-1989 -- Strangled by Harvey Weinstein-1996 -- Conclusion.

"Jonathan Taplin’s extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band in the ’60s, producer of major films in the ’70s, an executive at Merrill Lynch in the ’80s, creator of the Internet’s first video-on-demand service in the ’90s, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium. His is a lifetime marked not only by good timing but by impeccable instincts -- from the folk scene to Woodstock, Hollywood’s rebellious film movement, and beyond. Taplin is not just a witness but a lifelong producer, the right-hand man to some of the greatest talents of both pop culture and the underground. With cameos by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Martin Scorsese, and countless other icons, The Magic Years is both a rock memoir and a work of cultural criticism from a key player who watched a nation turn from idealism to nihilism. Taplin offers a clear-eyed roadmap of how we got here and makes a convincing case for art’s power to deliver us from “passionless detachment” and rekindle our humanism."--Publisher.

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