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Jonathan Cott
The conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles' "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever"
John Lennon wrote "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Almera, Spain, in fall 1966, and in November…
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A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott's remarkable writings
"All I really need to do is simply ask a question," Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds…
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Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John’s death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time. This…
A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings
All I really need to do is simply ask a question, Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds…
Jonathan Cott’s reflections and conversations with six celebrated children’s authors –
An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children’s book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only…
The author spoke with pianist Glenn Gould (1932-82), one of the most idiosyncratic and charismatic musicians of the twentieth century, in 1974 for Rolling Stone and published the transcripts in…
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Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed…
In Thirteen, acclaimed journalist and author Jonathan Cott digs deep into the seemingly bottomless enigma of a number that has signified danger, mystery, and unattainable transcendence for millenia. 40 illustrations…
Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features over two dozen of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, gathered in one definitive collection that spans his career from street…
Jonathan Cott (editor and contributor, editor and contributor, Rolling Stone magazine)
One month following the death of Leonard Bernstein in October 1990, Rolling Stone magazine published the final extended interview with this most famous of American musicians. In Dinner with Lenny…
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