Twenty-five years after “Almost Famous” put his origin story on movie screens, Cameron Crowe is thinking again about his roots as a teenage music journalist.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker’s new memoir, “The Uncool,” is a tender and insightful account of his adventures covering the likes of the Eagles, Led Zeppelin and Joni Mitchell for Rolling Stone in the 1970s. Back then, a relative scarcity of serious rock writing meant that bands would open the doors of their private jets and let him tag along with a notebook and tape recorder for weeks at a time.

Released Oct. 28, the book explores Crowe’s relationships with David Bowie, whom he shadowed across Los Angeles as Bowie constructed his Thin White Duke persona, and with Rolling Stone’s founder, Jann Wenner, whom he depicts as a kind of ment

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