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Author David N. Meyer on Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll: Creativity and the Liminal Edge of Madness

Author David N. Meyer on Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll: Creativity and the Liminal Edge of Madness

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A far-ranging interview with David N. Meyer, cinema studies professor, screenwriter and author of Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and his Cosmic American Music; The Bee Gees: The Biography; and A Girl and A Gun; the Complete Guide to Film Noir. Our conversation spans the neurobiology of addiction, the so-called '27 club' (Hendrix, Joplin, Cobain), addiction as creative hijack, and covering figures from Beethoven to Miles Davis, to painter Georgia O'Keefe, filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974).

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