Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll

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Foreword by Cameron Crowe

A collection of profiles and interviews written by Ben Fong-Torres (an Early Rolling Stone contributor and editor) from the late 60s though to the 80s. Includes one chapter, Fifteen Years Dead, about the Grateful Dead. This profile is from the August 7, 1980 edition of Rolling Stone. The subjects of other chapters include; Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ray Charles, Rolling Stones, Santana, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson Five, Ike and Tina Turner, Elton John, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and Hunter S Thompson.