Cameron Crowe. A name synonymous with the music world since he began writing about it in the early 1970s. If you’ve seen his film Almost Famous , you get the gist of his life: a protective, loving, force of a mother who essentially banned rock 'n' roll from the house; a sister who left him the gift of her record collection; a mentor in legendary rock critic Lester Bangs; and a magazine willing to take a chance on an unknown kid. (That magazine, of course, was Rolling Stone .)

This was the framework of his story, one that allowed the audience to go on tour with the fictional band Stillwater, ride the highs and lows of life on the road, and experience a mere fraction of what Crowe had experienced in his own life with musicians like The Allman Brothers, Fleetwood Mac , David Bowie, a

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