There Goes Gravity
  • Published: 27 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781594632952
  • Imprint: Riverhead
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $36.00

There Goes Gravity

A Life in Rock and Roll

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From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insider's behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.

From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insider’s behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.
 
Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music—including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Jay Z, and Kanye West. She visited the teenage Michael Jackson many times at his Encino home. She spent hours talking to John Lennon at his Dakota apartment—and in recording studios just weeks before his murder. She introduced David Bowie to Lou Reed at a private dinner in a Manhattan restaurant, helped the Clash and Elvis Costello get their record deals, was with the Rolling Stones on their jet during a frightening storm, and was mid-flight with Led Zeppelin when their tour manager pulled out a gun. A pioneering female journalist in an exclusive boys’ club, Lisa Robinson is a preeminent authority on the personalities and influences that have shaped the music world; she has been recognized as rock journalism’s ultimate insider.

A keenly observed and lovingly recounted look back on years spent with countless musicians backstage, after-hours, and on the road, There Goes Gravity documents a lifetime of riveting stories, told together here for the first time.
 
  • Published: 27 May 2015
  • ISBN: 9781594632952
  • Imprint: Riverhead
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $36.00
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Praise for There Goes Gravity

"Robinson is often delightful company. She spins good yarns and drops nifty tidbits about a litany of the great and the weird... There Goes Gravity aims to entertain, but it also illuminates."
-NYTimes Book Review

"As a pioneering music journalist in the 1970s (working for Creem, Hit Parader, et al.), Robinson rarely left the house without a VIP pass dangling from her neck. She shares a lifetime's worth of backstage escapades and intimate insights on rock royalty."
--Washington Post Express

"As a journalist, it's Robinson's job to get the story without a publicist whispering in her ear or lawyers tapping her on the shoulder or anyone telling her how and what to write. And she's done it so well, that, no matter what she writes, music artists love her. After reading this wickedly hilarious, blunt memoir, you will, too."
--USA Today

"You'll struggle to name a rock star Lisa Robinson hasn't interviewed over the years."
--Time Out New York

"Despite its author's relative sobriety, it's an intoxicating read. Gossipy, witty, and occasionally profound, Robinson writes about music from a very intimate perspective -- whether on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1975 or eating pasta cooked by Lady Gaga in 2011, Robinson has an uncanny ability to get close to musicians... From Led Zeppelin to David Bowie to Patti Smith to Michael Jackson to Kanye West, Robinson seems to have interviewed everyone, often while hanging out at legendary nightclubs whose passing she chronicles with unsentimental affection."--Boston Globe

"The excerpts from her long interviews with, say, John Lennon, are fascinating... Plenty of music fans will be more than ready for this circuitous, genial, and opinionated walk on the wild side."
--Booklist