Rock's in My Head: Encounters With Phil Spector, John & Yoko, Brian Wilson and a host of other people who should be just as famous by Fein, Art
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Rock's in My Head: Encounters With Phil Spector, John & Yoko, Brian Wilson and a host of other people who should be just as famous by Fein, Art

Rock's in My Head: Encounters With Phil Spector, John & Yoko, Brian Wilson and a host of other people who should be just as famous

Trouser Press Books
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Since first becoming a true believer in the power and importance of rock & roll as a boy in the 1950s, Art Fein has been immersed in music and the music business, taking on many diverse roles:

  • Journalist: onetime music editor of Variety, contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, Billboard and other publications
  • TV host: Art Fein's Poker Party, a talk-&-live-music public access cable show that ran for 24 years.
  • Band manager: Blasters, Cramps
  • Record company staffer: Capitol, Elektra, Casablanca
  • Music Consultant for TV and film: Roadhouse 66, Tour of Duty
  • Album Producer: L.A. Rockabilly
  • Author: The L.A. Musical History Tour
  • Blogger: Another Fein Mess
  • And: event promoter, photographer, record collector, and rock & roll historian.


In the memoir Rock's in My Head, drawing on 10,000 (!) pages of a journal he began keeping in the early 1970s, Fein recounts such incredible rock & roll adventures as:

  • A week spent working with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
  • Touring the UK with rockabilly legend Ray Campi
  • Throwing wild New Year's Eve parties for hundreds of revelers with cars as door prizes
  • Cooking up an ill-fated album with Ringo Starr ("Twenty-six years later, I was chatting with Ringo and mentioned the rockabilly album we'd planned. He said, 'Did I do the album? Did I stay at your house? I was so drunk in those days.'")


In 1985, Fein did the one thing fans are always cautioned about: he befriended an idol, becoming part of legendary record producer Phil Spector's inner circle. That relationship--often gratifying, sometimes terrifying--lasted through Spector's murder conviction in 2009. Fein knows--and reports--startling and intimate details about Spector that have appeared nowhere else.



Author: Art Fein
Publisher: Trouser Press Books
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9798985658941
ISBN10: 8985658948
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Rock
- Music | History & Criticism | General
- Biography & Autobiography | General