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OUR MOTTO: IT'S GOTTA BE FUN TO READ OR HAVE A d**** GOOD REASON WHY IT AINT |
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A professional journalist since 1950, Al Aronowitz, founder, editor and publisher of THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST, has met and/or has known; or has had a friends***p with and/or has had a close a***ociation with; or has interviewed and/or has written about some of the greatest figures to have ennobled our culture, including Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Ca***ady, Michael McClure, Jerry Garcia, Phil Spector, Janis Joplin, Bobby Darin, Jane Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Barbara Streisand, William Carlos Williams, William Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Carole King, Gerry Goffin, David Bowie, Peter Townsend, The Band, Merle Haggard, Charlie Pride, Johnny Cash, Steve Allen and ad infinitum. Many of whom, if not all, are or will be featured in articles and stories on this website. |
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A MESSAGE FROM THE CHILDREN OF AL ARONOWITZ: Welcome Back to The Blacklisted Journalist October 1, 2006 |
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- Myles, Brett & Joel Roi Aronowitz |
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COLUMN 118, OCTOBER 1, 2005 |
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(Copyright 2005 The Blacklisted Journalist) |
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Al Aronowitz,"Godfather Of Rock Journalism," Dies At 77 |
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COLUMN 117, MAY 1, 2005 (2) |
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(Copyright 2005 Al Aronowitz) SECTION ONE |
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MEMPHIS |
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SECTION TWO |
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THE WILD PALMS OF ETOWAH--- |
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IN PRAISE OF HOLY MADNESS |
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SECTION THREE GUILT |
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WARNING! FOR ADULTS ONLY! PERSONS NOT YET 18 YEARS OF AGE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO READ THIS STORY. |
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SECTION THREE EMAIL PAGE ONE |
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FOR AS LONG AS PEOPLE KEEP LISTENING TO BOB DYLAN AND THE BEATLES, PEOPLE WILL WANT THIS BOOK |
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"A masterpiece!" --- SALLY GROSSMAN, widow of Bob Dylan's brilliant original manager, Albert Grossman. |
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"This book is a must-read for all rock 'n roll aficionados!"---EAR CANDY |
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An essential reference for demystifying what the author refers to as: 'one of the most self-destructive binges of creativity in cultural history.'"---HAMMOND GUTHRIE, COUNTERPUNCH MAGAZINE |
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"Required Reading for anyone and everyone who considers themselves fans, followers, students, or those just plain curious of the Golden Age of Pop****r Music"---GARY PIG GOLD, FUFKIN.COM. |
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"I love the book. I love the way you can open it to any page and start reading and it keeps you reading. The book is just fun to read." --LEVON HELM, Drummer of THE BAND from Big Pink. |
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"Ellis Paul and I love your book."---RALPH JACCODINE, Ralph Jaccodine Management. |
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". . .perfect for our times."---WOODSTOCK TIMES |
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"Adam Duritz (he's the lead singer and writer for the famed Counting Crows). . . was at my studio and couldn't put the book down."---STEWART LERMAN, RIGHTEOUS SOUND INC. |
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". . .a must read for anyone who loves, music, loves life, loves rock and roll."---TSAURAH LITZKY, author of |
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The Motion of the Ocean, Baby on the Water, |
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and |
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Goodbye Beautiful Mother |
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"I recommend it."---DOUGLAS HOLDER, IBBETSON STREET PRESS. |
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". . .It is a fascinating, insightful read. You are such a wonderful writer."---STEPHANIE LEDGIN, Music Journalist. |
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"I could not put this book of yours down for a minute."---ED GALING, POET LAUREATE OF HATBORO, PA. |
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"Quite simply, Al Aronowitz is a living legend"---JOHN FORTUNATO, THE AQUARIAN. |
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"Every student and fan of The Beat Generation, Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones will want to read this book"---RON WHITEHEAD, POET |
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"Volume One Of The Blacklisted Journalist is the kinda tome what a fella can dip into at any given point and find oneself hooked within a couple paragraphs"---DUKE DE MONDO, BLOGCRITICS.ORG. |
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BOB DYLAN AND THE BEATLES, VOLUME ONE OF THE BEST OF THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST |
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The sometimes scattered chronicles of the rock journalist's friends***p with a few of the most recognizable music icons in rock and pop history. |
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It certainly takes a bit of hubris to say that "the '60s wouldn't have been the same without me." But coming from Al Aronowitz, the former music columnist for the New York Post who was often called "the godfather of rock journalism," such sentiment is perhaps justified. Here, in a compilation of many of his unpublished ma****cripts, Aronowitz describes in candid yet affectionate detail his friends***ps with Bob Dylan and the Beatles. As a music writer and fan who recognized the musicians' limitless potential early in their careers, Aronowitz decided to bring them together for the first time, in a New York City hotel in 1964, a meeting that also involved the Beatles' introduction to marijuana. His prescience was soon bolstered by the 1965 releases of Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and the Beatles' Rubber Soul, both seminal albums that altered the landscape of pop music. This landmark moment is just one of Aronowitz's colorful memories and musings of being a hanger-on with these legends and their a***ociates, including The Band, Beatles manager Brian Epstein, poet Allen Ginsberg, deejay Murray the K and others. Specifically provocative are the accounts of Dylan's erratic behavior and short temper, which often led to fitful confrontations and even the ending of friends***ps, including that between Dylan and the author. It's also evident that Aronowitz was particularly fond of George Harrison, and the two remained friends until Harrison's death in 2001. Most remarkable is the close proximity he maintained to these gods, whether he was at their homes, hoteI rooms, recording studios, or concerts. Though his personal life certainly had its share of woes (particularly bankruptcy and his wife's death), Aronowitz exhibits a marked sense of pride---and rightly so---for playing a key role in music history, |
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An enticing backstage pa*** to the meeting of arguably the two most influential acts in rock history. |
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"BOB DYLAN AND THE BEATLES: Volume One Of The Best Of The Blacklisted Journalist is a golden stash box of Al's You-Are-There history of two thirds of rock's Holy Troika"---MICHAEL SIMMONS, LA WEEKLY. |
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". . .Amazing stories in this book" ---JAY LUSTIG, NEWARK STAR LEDGER |
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". . .Aronowitz has a place in the annals of history that nothing can erase"---DAVID DANKWA, GAZETTE LEADER |
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". . .Aronowitz has a simple, straightforward writing style that makes the reading go fast. . ."---JEFFERY LINDHOLM, DIRTY LINEN |
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"Aronowitz. . .witnessed things that most rock fanswould give an arm and a leg to see"---REGIS BEHE, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE REVIEW |
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"The best of Aronowitz's writing. . . offer riotous and rambling time capsules comprising detailed vignettes and told in a voice that's direct, disarming and self-deprecating"---MIKE MILIARD, BOSTON PHOENIX |
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". . .Addictive reading" ---GOLDMINE MAGAZINE |
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'behind the scenes' events of people who spawned an entirely new direction in the time we identify as the sixties, this book is truly for you!"--- |
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HOST OF THE "ON THE HORIZON" RADIO SHOW |
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IN THIS |
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615-PAGE PAPERBACK, AL ARONOWITZ, ACCLAIMED AS THE "GODFATHER OF ROCK JOURNALISM," TELLS YOU MORE ABOUT BOB DYLAN AND THE BEATLES THAN ANY OTHER WRITER CAN TELL YOU BECAUSE NO OTHER WRITER WAS THERE AT THE TIME. AS THE MAN WHO INTRODUCED ALLEN GINSBERG TO BOB DYLAN, BOB DYLAN TO THE BEATLES AND THE BEATLES TO MARIJUANA, ARONOWITZ BOASTS, "THE '60S WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THE SAME WITHOUT ME." |
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AND HERE'S ANOTHER BOOK BY AL ARONOWITZ! |
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THE MOVIE WAS FICTION. THE TRUE STORY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION: FOR MOST OF HIS SHORT BUT SPECTACULAR LIFE, BOBBY DARIN UNKNOWINGLY LIVED A LIE |
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". . .A highly entertaining and informative read"--HAMMOND GUTHRIE, THE THIRD PAGE |
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". . .Its 43 chapters provide snapshots of Darin's brief, sensational life" ---GOLDMINE MAGAZINE |
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PAGE TWO OF INDEX FOR |
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INDEX OF THE BEAT PAPERS OF AL ARONOWITZ |
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ORIGINAL INTERVIEWS WITH BEAT GENERATION PERSONALITIES |
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