The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe, aptly titled ‘The Uncool’, will be published this coming October by Avid Reader Press.
‘The Uncool’ is a memoir that promises to take us another step forward on the journey from Crowe’s Academy Award winning ‘Almost Famous’. “The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool“, legendary music critic Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells young aspiring rock journalist William Miller (Patrick Fugit) in the film – and now here we are, 25 years on, and it seems that Cameron Crowe is owning and exploring that truth once again.
Crowe, an avid music fan (and incendiary writer!) became Rolling Stone’s youngest ever contributor as a fifteen-year-old high school graduate, eventually profiling the likes of Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Elton John, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and The Who. Crowe is best known for writing and directing such iconic films as ‘Fast Times at Ridgemont High’, ‘Jerry Maguire’, and of course, the iconic ‘Almost Famous’, which he based on his own personal experiences growing up inside the music scene of the early/mid 70’s. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film in 2001.
‘The Uncool’ will truly be an essential read for music fans and lovers everywhere.
As Penny Lane would say: ‘It’s all happening!’.
[Linda Memphis, Apr 2025]
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