Don’t let the title of Cameron Crowe’s memoir fool you.

The Uncool chronicles the filmmaker’s early years as a rock journalist for Rolling Stone , where he became the magazine’s youngest-ever contributor as a 15-year-old. Crowe wrote cover stories on some of the defining acts of the 1970s: David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, and Tom Petty among them. While his classmates back home in San Diego were studying for midterms, Crowe convinced a teacher to give him class credit for his time on the road with Led Zeppelin.

“I didn’t even know how to process what was happening in real time,” Crowe recently told Vogue . “I felt like a kid at the zoo walking into all these cages with the door left open.”

Crowe and Robert Plant backstage in Chicago, 1975. Photo: Neal Preston

The book’s title refers

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