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Author:	Laurie Kaye
Title:	Confessions Of A Rock 'N' Roll Name-Dropper
Subtitle:	My Life Leading Up To John Lennon's Last Interview
Publisher:	Fayetteville Mafia Press
Country:	USA
Date:	8 Dec 2023
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music, Biography
ISBN-10:	194902458X
ISBN-13:	9781949024586
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Price Guide:	$20
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250 pages.

From the publisher's website (www link as at 22 July 2023):

On December 8, 1980, twenty-something rock journalist Laurie Kaye entered the legendary Dakota apartments on Manhattan’s Upper West Side to co-conduct an interview with her long-time idol, John Lennon. It was the last interview Lennon would ever give - just hours later, outside that same building, Lennon was shot dead by a twenty-five-year-old man (whom Kaye refuses to refer to by name) whom Kaye herself had encountered after finishing the interview and stepping outside onto the street. Kaye has beaten herself up ever since over her failure to recognize that the assassin - who blocked her path and harassed her with questions like “Did you talk to him?” “Did you get his autograph?” - posed a danger and should have been reported. Now, as we approach the forty-fifth anniversary of Lennon’s death, Kaye reflects how she rose from teen runaway from a dysfunctional family to expatriate studying Balinese dancing in Indonesia to journalist, writer, and producer with credits including RKO Presents The Beatles/The Beatles from Liverpool to Legend (at the tender age of twenty-one) and the Lord of the Rings DVD release, plus interviews with such titans of the music industry as Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Talking Heads, The Ramones, David Bowie, and Mick Jagger, whom she put on hold so that he could listen to her newscast before getting down to business. But it was the day she shared a loveseat with John Lennon and watched him push his iconic granny glasses down the length of his nose and smile at her in agreement that remains indelibly etched in her mind - both the best and worst day of her life.

Front book cover created by Grammy-winning rock album designer/music video director Mick Haggerty from the photo taken of Laurie with John and Yoko at the tail end of their December 8, 1980 interview.

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