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Lori Majewski
My longtime friend, the entertainment journalist, author, and screenwriter Jonathan Bernstein, and I had been wanting to do something together since we met back in the early 90s at Spin magazine. What finally spurred us into action was an interview with Gary Kemp from Spandau Ballet about the band's classic ballad, "True." Kemp talked about lifting lyrics straight out of Nabokov's "Lolita," and that the song was inspired by the unrequited relationship he was having with the Claire Grogan, the bubbly lead singer of Altered Images ("Happy Birthday"). JB and I found these bits of trivia to be quite fun and thought, "What if we did a book about the stories behind our favorite songs?" All of those songs happened to be from the late 70s and early 80s -- the dawn of MTV, the so-called Second British Invasion of the U.S. However, when we quickly realized, after a couple or so interviews, that we were telling the story of not just the songs but of the entire era -- a weird and wonderful time in music that we refer to as the Last Golden Age of Pop. As it turns out, we weren't the only ones in love with these tracks and these artists; unlike grunge, punk, and classic rock, the new wave era is one of the few that hasn't been covered to death in tome after tome. So what we ended up with was something that others refer to as the "definitive" book of the era. (I wouldn't be so brazen as to say that myself, but it sure sounds nice!)
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