For much of the world, he had us at “Jerry Maguire,” or his “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” script, or “…Say Anything.” But for a select portion of his fandom, filmmaker Cameron Crowe really had us at the hello that his early journalism career represented. Crowe first came to fame as a leading rock journo for Rolling Stone who just happened to be an emotionally intellectual teenager at the time — the time being one of rock ‘n’ roll’s golden ages in the 1970s, when he was tagging along on tour or in the studio with Led Zeppelin, David Bowie , Lynyrd Skynyrd and just about every other major rocker of the period. It’s an era he mined for semi-fiction in the movie and stage musical “ Almost Famous ” and now is telling true stories about in his new memoir, “The Uncool.”

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