Enjoy some highlights, excerpted fromLike a Rolling Stone, below.
He arrived at 2 a.m., not ready to wind down.
We mostly talked about the history of the Who and their future.
He sees things as vibrations, which we translate as music.
The boy elevates and finds something incredible.
He asked if I had spiked his orange juice with acid the night before.
It was pure Pete.
He became a pen pal.
The big drag about The Who is that they always lean so heavily on their history, he wrote.
Anything slightly daring throws everyone into panics.
I feel I can put a time limit on how much longer well be together.
I give it 18 months.
Bob Dylan
I met withBobat the Stanhope Hotel on East 81st Street and Fifth Avenue.
He was clean-cut, neatly dressed and carried a book bag.
He came alone; this was in those less fraught early days without PR people.
His answers were simple and direct.
Well, Jann, he said.
Ill tell ya, I was on the road for almost five years.
It wore me down.
I was on drugs, a lot of things.
A lot of things just to keep going.
And I dont want to live that way anymore.
Im just waiting for a better time.
Do you think youve played any role in the change of popular music in the last four years?
Well, a lot of people say you have.
Well, you know, Im not one to argue.
I want to lighten every load.
Straighten out every burden.
I dont want anybody to be hung up … especially over me or anything I do.
Mick Jagger
I first metMick Jaggerwhen I was 22 and he was 25.
It was in July 1968.
Mick was in town remixingBeggars Banquetwith Glyn Johns, who was also producing Steves record.
But a rock star he surely was.
He made me feel comfortable right away.
They also worked on No Expectations.
It was Sympathy for the Devil.
After all, it was you and me.
It was the first time I heardMusic From Big Pink(the debut album by the Band).
We spent a long time talking about music and so many other things.
It was a great start to a friendship.
She had been a painting major and bought her first camera two years earlier.
No one could have imagined the light within.
Her first cover shoot, in 1970, was Grace Slick.
