Rock's in My Head

<p>Since first becoming a true believer in the power and importance of rock & roll as a boy in the 1950s Art Fein has been immersed in music and the music business taking on many diverse roles:</p><ul><li><strong>Journalist</strong>: onetime music editor of <em>Variety</em> contributor to the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> <em>Chicago Tribune Rolling Stone</em> <em>Billboard </em>and other publications</li><li><strong>TV host</strong>: <em>Art Fein's Poker Party</em> a talk-&-live-music public access cable show that ran for 24 years.</li><li><strong>Band manager</strong>: Blasters Cramps</li><li><strong>Record company staffer</strong>: Capitol Elektra Casablanca</li><li><strong>Music Consultant for TV and film</strong>: <em>Roadhouse 66 Tour of Duty</em></li><li><strong>Album Producer</strong>: <em>L.A. Rockabilly</em></li><li><strong>Author</strong>: <em>The L.A. Musical History Tour</em></li><li><strong>Blogger</strong>: <em>Another Fein Mess</em></li><li><strong>And</strong>: event promoter photographer record collector and rock & roll historian.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>In the memoir <strong><em>Rock's in My Head</em></strong> drawing on 10000 (!) pages of a journal he began keeping in the early 1970s Fein recounts such incredible rock & roll adventures as:</p><ul><li>A week spent working with John Lennon and Yoko Ono</li><li>Touring the UK with rockabilly legend Ray Campi</li><li>Throwing wild New Year's Eve parties for hundreds of revelers with cars as door prizes</li><li>Cooking up an ill-fated album with Ringo Starr (Twenty-six years later I was chatting with Ringo and mentioned the rockabilly album we'd planned. He said 'Did I do the album? Did I stay at your house? I was so drunk in those days.')</li></ul><p><br></p><p>In 1985 Fein did the one thing fans are always cautioned about: he befriended an idol becoming part of legendary record producer Phil Spector's inner circle. That relationship--often gratifying sometimes terrifying--lasted through Spector's murder conviction in 2009. Fein knows--and reports--startling and intimate details about Spector that have appeared nowhere else.</p>