The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe-one of America's most iconic journalists and
filmmakers-revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that
shaped a generation in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith's Just Kids . If you've seen
Almost Famous you may think you know this story but you don't. 'Cameron has written a book
that feels like music an intimate souvenir like a song you can't stop listening to' STEVIE
NICKS 'If you're a lover of music or you've ever been in love then you have something to say.
Cameron has always been someone who knows just how to say it' HARRY STYLES 'Lyrical and
compulsively readable' GUARDIAN Cameron Crowe was an unlikely rock and roll insider. Born in
1957 to parents who strictly banned the genre from their house he dove headfirst into the
world of music. By the time he graduated high school at fifteen Crowe was already contributing
to Rolling Stone magazine. With his parents uneasily convinced he went on to interview and
tour with icons like Led Zeppelin Lynyrd Skynyrd Bob Dylan Crosby Stills Nash & Young
and Fleetwood Mac. Crowe spends his teens politely turning down the drugs and turning on his
tape recorder. He talks his journalism teacher into giving him class credit for his road trip
covering Led Zeppelin's 1975 tour which lands him - and the band - on the cover of Rolling
Stone . He hunkers down with David Bowie as the sequestered genius transforms himself into a
new persona: The Thin White Duke. Why did they give him such unprecedented access? 'Because
you're young enough to be honest ' Bowie tells him. At its heart The Uncool is a surprisingly
intimate family drama that charts the path that leads Crowe to writing and directing some of
the most beloved films of the past forty years. It's a touching and joyful dispatch from a lost
world a chronicle of the real-life events that became Almost Famous and a coming-of-age
journey filled with music legends as you've never seen them before. 'His clarity of observation
and memory his choice words his people - Cameron Crowe wonderfully continues to serve us'
WES ANDERSON 'A delicious tale of a devotee who worships at the altar of rock and roll ... It's
a love letter to fandom sealed with Cameron's trademark sincerity and heart' MAGGIE ROGERS
