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"[Jonathan Taplin] was the one who made Mean Streets and The Last Waltz possible, for which I will always be grateful. We had quite a few adventures on both projects, and they're all chronicled in this memoir of his colorful life in show business." —Martin Scorsese
"The Magic Years reads like a Magical Mystery Tour of music, loss, beauty, family, justice, and social upheaval." —Rosanne Cash
Jonathan Taplin's extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band in the '60s, producer of major films in the '70s, an executive at Merrill Lynch in the '80s, creator of the Internet's first video-on-demand service in the '90s, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium. His is a lifetime marked not only by good timing but by impeccable instincts—from the folk scene to Woodstock, Hollywood's rebellious film movement, and beyond. Taplin is not just a witness but a lifelong producer, the right-hand man to some of the greatest talents of both pop culture and the underground.
With cameos by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Martin Scorsese, and countless other icons, The Magic Years is both a rock memoir and a work of cultural criticism from a key player who watched a nation turn from idealism to nihilism. Taplin offers a clear-eyed roadmap of how we got here and makes a convincing case for art's power to deliver us from "passionless detachment" and rekindle our humanism.
Contents
Contents
Prologue
1. Lord of the Flies—1962
2. Dylan Goes Electric—1965
3. The Summer of Love—1967
4. Dylan and the Hawks—1967
5. Princeton in Rebellion—1967
6. The Band in Los Angeles—1969
7. Bearsville—1969
8. The Woodstock Festival—1969
9. On the Road with the Band—1970
10. The Concert for Bangladesh—1971
11. The Rolling Stones in Exile—1972
12. Mean Streets—1973
13. Cannes Film Festival—1974
14. The Last Waltz—1976
15. Rolling Thunder and Beyond—1980
16. Under Fire—1980
17. Saving Disney—1984
18. Until the End of the World—1989
19. Strangled by Harvey Weinstein—1996
20. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
