"If filmmaker Cameron Crowe's career arc sounds like a Hollywood story, that's because it is one. Crowe's 2000 Oscar-winning film Almost Famous is based on his own teen years; he was 15 years old in 1973 when he became a music journalist, landing a backstage interview Gregg Allman. By age 16, he had written his first cover story for Rolling Stone. He'd go on to write about David Bowie, Jimmy Page and other rock stars."
"Crowe credits much of his early success with his hometown of San Diego, which tended to come at the end of a band's tour. By that time, he says, musicians were open to talking. "Here's a kid that comes to the door with a notebook full of questions based on the music that nobody was really asking them about," Crowe says. "They're like, 'Get that kid in here. Come on, we're bored. Let him ask us those questions.'""
Cameron Crowe became a music journalist at 15 in 1973, landing a backstage Gregg Allman interview and writing a Rolling Stone cover at 16. He profiled David Bowie, Jimmy Page and other rock stars and credits San Diego's late-tour stops for access to candid interviews. He saved his interview tapes and transcribed them himself, learning to capture raw, fragmented speech that revealed emotional truths. Those early experiences informed his later work as a writer and director of films including Almost Famous, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Say Anything... and Jerry Maguire. He recounts convincing his parents to let him tour before finishing high school.
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