Overview
- Published Oct. 28 by Avid Reader Press, The Uncool recounts Crowe’s on-the-road reporting with major 1970s rock acts as a teenage Rolling Stone writer.
- Crowe says he wrote the memoir to honor his older sister Cathy, who died by suicide when he was 10, and to pay homage to his mother, Alice.
- The book revisits a fraught encounter with Gregg Allman in which Allman seized Crowe’s tapes, followed years later by what Crowe describes as an unspoken reconciliation.
- Crowe details a 1975 Led Zeppelin cover-shoot fiasco, recalling that a flash malfunction left the photos unusable and forced the magazine to run live images instead.
- He will promote the memoir on a seven-city tour beginning Oct. 30 in Nashville, with events featuring Kate Hudson and Judd Apatow.