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 I once thought of interviews as some sort of cliff notes; I thought that the questions answered from the author would save my time of reading the actual book. As an adult I now look at that as moronic, but hey...things change, I changed. This was over 15 years ago, but I have learned a lot since then.  At the time I was in my early teens, and even though I loved music I really didn't love reading yet. In my experience books that were of no interest to me often felt 'forced' on me. I look back at it as normal books everyone has read at the same age, and I just wasn't into it. Reading books for young Becca was like pulling teeth, and I had to force myself to read assigned books for many years.  At this same time I was rock n roll obsessed and started to accumulate rock books, mostly ones with pictures. But my love of rock also pushed me to get into reading books, but for some reason it was a huge uphill battle. I was newly in love with The Who and bought a bo...

If I had an event and I needed to book musical performances for it, I would first think of obvious living performers. Well  obviously  with the people who run the London Olympics, no one did their research. Not to mention these Brits don't seem too keen on British pop culture. Ironically, the name of the event is "Symphony of Rock — a celebration of British pop culture."  Ouch.  I feel like it bears repeating, that the Who were a famous band, and not just in the 60's. These guys pioneered rock and roll. They brought the house down at Woodstock, and re-claimed their place after The Concert for New York. They still tour, and are Rock and Roll Hall of Famers. Keith Moon, the Who's famous drummer, died just a year after Elvis. You'd think the London Olympics organizers would know this...but no, no they did not. Instead they decided to shoot The Who's long time manager an email asking if Keith could be apart of the ceremony.  Check out the article:  Olympi...