Stephen davis author biography sample
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Stephen Davis - Rock take up Roll Journalist
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November 2017
By Kaelin Rasmussen
Stephen Davis started his writing career in music journalism. Now he writes biographies of rock stars. Wikipedia will tell you he is “perhaps America’s best-known rock biographer.” Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Guns N’ Roses, Carly Simon, Bob Marley, Jim Morrison…any of those ring a bell? His newest book, Gold Dust Woman, is about Stevie Nicks, and will be released on November 21.
A longtime resident of Milton, he has been a member of the Athenæum for over 30 years. When we spoke in early October, he shared some BA memories, his fondness for typewriters (“I’ve got my father’s 1940 Corona, it’s like this tall, and, you know, ‘tap-tap-tap.’ My children think I’m insane.”), and also some of his experiences as a bestselling author, all with a good, ready dose of dry humor.
Q: Tell us about your background, where you were born and raised, etc. And how did you get into writing biographies?
A: Born and raised in New York City, went to a private academy in Philadelphia, had five years of Latin, and I came here, to Boston University, in 1965, and I’ve never left. I started my career writing. I was the editor of the BU News, which at the time was the largest student newspaper
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Stephen Davis (music journalist)
American music journalist
Stephen Davis is an American music journalist.
Davis was born in New York City and attended Boston University. He began his career writing for the Boston Phoenix in 1970.[1] His journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, the Boston Globe and numerous other newspapers and magazines.[1]
The negativity and purported inaccuracy of his Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, along with other controversial works, earned him the nickname "Stephen Salacious".[2]
Published works
[edit]- Reggae Bloodlines: In Search of the Music and Culture of Jamaica, with photographs by Peter Simon, Da Capo Press (1977), 1992, ISBN 0-306-80496-4
- Reggae International, with photographs of Peter Simon, 1982, R&B Books, USA, ISBN 0-394-71313-3
- Bob Marley: The Biography, 1983, A Barker, ISBN 0-213-16859-6
- Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga, Berkley Publishing Group (1985), 1997, ISBN 0-345-33516-3
- Hammer of the Gods: "Led Zeppelin" Unauthorised, Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 0-330-43859-X
- Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac, by Mick Fleetwood, William Morrow & Company, 1990, ISBN 0-688-06647-X
- Jajouka Roll