Scenes from a Rock and Roll Life with Jonathan Taplin

32 Water Street,Stonington CT 06378

26 August, 2021

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Scenes from a Rock and Roll Life Jonathan Taplin will be discussing his memoir, The Magic Years: Scenes from a Rock-and-Roll Life. His extraordinary journey has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band in the ’60s, producer of major films in the ’70s, an executive at Merrill Lynch in the ’80s, creator of the Internet’s first video-on-demand service in the ’90s, and a cultural critic and author writing about technology in the new millennium. His is a lifetime marked not only by good timing but by impeccable instincts―from the folk scene to Woodstock, Hollywood’s rebellious film movement, and more. Beyond insider glimpses into the lives of countless icons, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and Martin Scorsese, The Magic Years offers a clear-eyed roadmap of a nation turned from idealism to nihilism and makes a convincing case for art’s power to deliver us from “passionless detachment” and rekindle our humanism. Co-sponsored with James Merrill House. Books provided by Bank Square Books will be available for signing and sale. La Grua Center is a small nonprofit cultural arts center—open to all—offering a wide variety of concerts, talks, and art exhibitions in a welcoming space located in Stonington Borough.