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There Goes Gravity

A Life in Rock and Roll

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1 of 1 copy available
From a legendary journalist with four decades of unprecedented access and untold stories, an insider’s behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.
 
Lisa Robinson has interviewed everyone from John Lennon to Bono to Patti Smith, Eminem to Lady Gaga to Jay-Z and Kanye West. She’s talked nail polish with a twelve-year-old Michael Jackson, hosted The Clash at Studio 54, and introduced Lou Reed to David Bowie over filet mignon in a Manhattan restaurant. She helped Elvis Costello and The Clash get their record deals.  She had total access to the punk scene at CBGBs, was on a private plane with the Rolling Stones during a lightning storm and with Led Zeppelin when their tour manager pulled out a gun. Unlike any other journalist who covered this world, she was the only woman to break into this exclusive boys' club. The story of rock and roll for the last four decades is Lisa Robinson’s story. She has lived and breathed music – the sound, the scene, the personalities – and she shares her stories all together here for the first time.
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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Anyone who read rock magazines in the 1970s will remember Lisa Robinson as the tell-all columnist who gained access to the backstage world of rock's biggest and most outrageous superstars--in particular, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin--during their creative--and decadent--peaks. In this memoir, which she narrates herself, she dryly recounts the maddening backstage whirl, which she remained a part of as late as the '80s, when she was reborn as an MTV talking head. Robinson's unique voice--resonant but laced with the cynicism of a native New Yorker--adds depth to her unique position as a kind of confidante to the stars. It's the perfect vessel to deliver such delicious--and telling--bons mots as: "In those days, nobody went to Brooklyn. There was no reason to." J.S.H. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 21, 2014
      During her 40 plus years as a music writer and columnist (New Musical Express, NY Post, Vanity Fair), Robinson has conducted a wealth of high-profile interviewsâPatti Smith, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Jay Z, Eminem. These immersive tales from the hotels and backstage rooms of many larger-than-life musicians form a fly-on-the-wall adventure through the last half century of music. Growing up the daughter of a judge in Manhattan, Robinson used to sneak out to hear Thelonious Monk at the Village Vanguard before ending up in the offices of her future husband, writer and music label insider Richard Robinson. At a time when the feminist movement was still in its infancy, Robinson established herself as part of a rarified circle of women who had truly free access. She had early success with interviews because, initially, she didn't see herself as a rock critic (often writing gossip about fashion) and was cautious to judge, leaving the drug exposes to others. Tellingly, although she was entertained by the likes of Jagger and enthrall by Led Zeppelin, when Robinson was in New York she would head straight to CBGB's to see Television and The New York Dolls, of whom she has been a longstanding champion. For Robinson, writing about the scene "felt like a âcalling'." Whether I was in a private plane with the Rolling Stones or standing in two inches of beerâ¦at CBGB'sâit was exactly where I wanted to be." Her excitement is palpable and will leave you wanting to put your lighter in the air.

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