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Cameron Crowe recalls how David Bowie "challenged" him as a young writer

The filmmaker spoke with PEOPLE for a story in this week's print issue, about his new memoir The Uncool

The book recounts Crowe's early career as a teenage music journalist, during which he interviewed Bowie and others '70s rock legends

Cameron Crowe is looking back on his unlikely — and unparalleled — time with David Bowie .

In an interview with PEOPLE for this week’s print issue, the writer and director, 68, recalls the 18 months he spent alongside the rockstar, who died in 2016 at age 69. He also looks back on the period in his new memoir The Uncool , out on Oct. 28.

Crowe, who was working as a young reporter for Rolling Stone at the time, met Bowie while he was writing about Rolling St

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