A pandemic milestone and a nuclear option. Plus: Bob Dylan paints, George Saunders talks, and music from John Lennon, Nina Simone, Jackson Browne and Jonathan Richman.
Just finished the chapter from your memoir and today’s piece. Great stuff as ever. And in the category of uncanny coincidences, I was listening to Elephant’s Memory just yesterday as the band was featured on Tom Frangione’s SiriusXM Beatles show, “Way Beyond Compare.” As a former political hack who loved and consumed every page of Campaign of the Century, I am loving your political stuff and insanely jealous of your Crawdaddy/music years. I missed them by a decade or so, but you interviewed and/or covered all of my heroes!
We were close to John & Yoko at that time at Crawdaddy and he gave us the lyrics to the Ireland song and Attica State before they came out. Earlier he had written for us on writing 'Imagine.'
David Lynch's 2011 album, Crazy Clown Time, is really great.
thanks
Just finished the chapter from your memoir and today’s piece. Great stuff as ever. And in the category of uncanny coincidences, I was listening to Elephant’s Memory just yesterday as the band was featured on Tom Frangione’s SiriusXM Beatles show, “Way Beyond Compare.” As a former political hack who loved and consumed every page of Campaign of the Century, I am loving your political stuff and insanely jealous of your Crawdaddy/music years. I missed them by a decade or so, but you interviewed and/or covered all of my heroes!
thanks for that
"Mother" by John, NYC '72--absolutely incredible. Thanks for finding and including. More should be written about the L.P. Plastic Ono Band.
We were close to John & Yoko at that time at Crawdaddy and he gave us the lyrics to the Ireland song and Attica State before they came out. Earlier he had written for us on writing 'Imagine.'