There actually aren’t sufficient movies the place the hero is a music journalist. However because of Cameron Crowe, there’s at the least one: 2000’s Oscar-winning Virtually Well-known, which helped to convey some much-needed legitimacy to the notion of asking philosophical inquiries to spaced-out guitarists for a residing.
Crowe, after all, was as soon as that teenage music journalist himself: Rolling Stone’s youngest ever correspondent, charming his approach into the arrogance of bands like The Allman Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, Eagles and Led Zeppelin.
In 1981, he wrote Quick Instances At Ridgemont Excessive, which was became a cult film of the identical title. Crowe quickly turned an acclaimed movie director himself, making Singles, Jerry Maguire, Virtually Well-known and Vanilla Sky amongst others, earlier than ultimately gravitating again in direction of the music world with documentaries about Pearl Jam and David Crosby, and an upcoming biopic of Joni Mitchell.
Now he’s about to publish his memoir, The Uncool, which takes us again to these halcyon ’70s days, with a canopy endorsement from Stevie Nicks.
And whereas he’s in reflective temper, he’s kindly submitted to a mild grilling from you, the Uncut readers. So, what do you wish to ask a titan of each the music writing and movie directing worlds? E mail your inquiries to audiencewith@uncut.co.uk by Tuesday (October 7) and Cameron will reply the perfect ones in a future problem of Uncut.
