Samuel J Fell
Des Cowley reviews 'Full Coverage: A history of rock journalism in Australia' by Samuel J. Fell
Des Cowley
Tuesday, 19 December 2023
In the film Almost Famous (2000), director Cameron Crowe’s alter ego, fifteen-year-old William Miller, doggedly pursues his dream of breaking into rock journalism. He cold-calls legendary music journalist Lester Bangs (marvellously played by a dishevelled Philip Seymour Hoffman). Next thing we know, he is commissioned by Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres to head out on the road with fictitious band Stillwater to write a story that ends up on the cover of Rolling Stone. If only it were that easy.
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January-February 2024, no. 461