Tag: pop music

• Memoir: Every song that mattered to you can tell a story (1971)

  

  “Yes,” I could say, “my family life might be shameful, but I know who bats third for the Cubs (Joe Pepitone) and who guested on the Flip Wilson Show last week (Bill Cosby, Gina Lollabrigita, and John Sebastian).”

  abendelow

  July 11, 2025

  memoir

  1971, acoustic guitar, am radio, Bill Cosby, chicago cubs, every picture tells a story, folk-rock, maggie may, mandolin, music, pop music, rod stewart, top 40

• Memoir: Musical Madeleines (1970-73) (1983-85)

  

  “… in that time Taupin’s protagonists grew dark with a growing awareness of corruption and human depravity–strong stuff for 12-year-old me.”

  abendelow

  October 17, 2024

  memoir

  1970s, bernie-taupin, bob dylan, elton john, keith jarrett trio, madeleine, memoir, music, pop, pop music, toxic masculinity

• Memoir: from Captain Fantastic (1974) to Quadrophenia (1980)

  

  The music hadn’t changed a bit. But I had.

  abendelow

  November 6, 2023

  memoir

  alice cooper, am radio, british pop, captain fantastic, Circus magazine, Creem magazine, david bowie, elton john, gary glitter, homophobia, memoir, music, oak park, pop music, quadrophenia, t-rex, the beatles, the who