Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper

De: Laurie Kaye

Narrado por: Laurie Kaye

On December 8, 1980, twenty-something rock journalist Laurie Kaye entered the legendary Dakota apartments in New York to interview her longtime idol John Lennon. It was the last interview Lennon would ever give—just hours later, outside that same building, Lennon was shot dead by a twenty-five-year-old man (Kaye refuses to name him) whom Kaye herself had encountered after finishing the interview and stepping outside. Kaye has beaten herself up ever since over her failure to recognize that the assassin posed a danger and should have been reported.

Here Kaye recounts not just her unfortunate brush with history, but also her turbulent early years growing up in LA and her fascinating, star-packed journey from radio intern to acclaimed writer/producer. Plus interviews with such titans of the music industry as Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Talking Heads, the Ramones, David Bowie, and Mick Jagger.

©2023 Laurie Kaye (P)2023 Fayetteville Mafia Press

A Perfect Rock-N-Roll Time Capsule

I loved this audiobook. It really brought me back to the 1970s and 1980s. Laurie Kaye’s memoir of her life as a radio writer-producer and interviewer of rock-n-roll superstars is a perfect time capsule. The audiobook features excerpts of her interviews with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Yoko Ono and others. I highly recommend. It’s a great companion piece to her paperback book version.