Rock’s In My Head, A Memoir By Art Fein, To Be Published By Trouser Press Books On November 30

ROCK’S IN MY HEAD, A MEMOIR BY ART FEIN, TO BE PUBLISHED BY TROUSER PRESS BOOKS ON NOVEMBER 30 ENCOUNTERS WITH PHIL SPECTOR, JOHN & YOKO, BRIAN WILSON AND A HOST OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE JUST AS FAMOUS PRE-ORDER THE PAPERBACK HERE & E-BOOK HERE

Since first becoming a true believer in the power and importance of rock & roll as a boy in the 1950s, Art Fein has been immersed in music and the music business, taking on many diverse roles. On November 30, 2022, Trouser Press Books will publish Rock’s in My Head, Art Fein’s memoir of six decades in the music, in paperback and E-book. Art Fein has worked in the industry as a: Journalist: onetime music editor of Variety, contributor to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, Billboard and many other publications. Band manager: Blasters, Cramps Record company staffer: Capitol, Elektra, Casablanca TV host: Art Fein's Poker Party, a talk-and-live-music public access cable show that ran for 24 years and lives on via YouTube. Guests included Brian Wilson, Dwight Yoakam, Dion, Alison Krauss, Ruth Brown, Jackie DeShannon, Dr. Demento, and literally hundreds more. Available here: https://www.youtube.com/c/sofeinvideo Music Consultant, TV and film: Roadhouse 66, Tour of Duty Album Producer: L.A. Rockabilly Author: The L.A. Musical History Tour Blogger: Another Fein Mess (archived at www.sofein.com) Add to that: event promoter, photographer, record collector, and rock & roll historian. In his wry, rollicking and insightful memoir Rock’s in My Head, drawing on 10,000 (!) pages of journals he began keeping in the early 1970s, Fein recounts such incredible rock & roll adventures as:  A week spent working with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. (“I was in the unique position of coaching John Lennon on old rock & roll. Not many records got to Liverpool in the ’50s, and a lot of mine were new to him… [John] said that if he’d been exposed to the records I was playing for him… maybe he would have been satisfied just listening to it and settled into a life as a grocer…”) Watching The Band record and befriending Levon Helm Touring the UK with rockabilly legend Ray Campi Throwing wild, rocking New Year’s Eve parties for hundreds of revelers with cars as door prizes Cooking up an ill-fated album with Ringo Starr (“Twenty-six years later, at a gathering after the funeral of dear friend Doug Fieger, lead singer of The Knack, I was chatting with Ringo and mentioned the rockabilly album we’d planned. He said, ‘Did I do the album? Did I stay at your house? I was so drunk in those days.’”) In 1985, Fein did the one thing fans are always cautioned about: he befriended an idol, becoming part of legendary record producer Phil Spector’s inner circle. That relationship—often gratifying, sometimes terrifying—lasted through Spector’s murder conviction in 2009. In Rock’s in My Head, Fein shares startling and intimate details about Spector that have appeared nowhere else. Rock’s in My Head is the story of a diehard rock & roll fan who saw Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show, bought now-classic Jerry Lee Lewis 45s the week they reached stores, and then grew up to become an active – and occasionally reluctant -- participant in that world. Fein writes, “It turns out I didn’t want to be in the music business; I wanted to be in the music.”  Advance praise for Rock’s in My Head: Everybody oughta get to know Art Fein, and his wonderful book is the best way to do it. Art has served rock ’n’ roll as scribe, flack, label guy, manager, promoter, TV host, kibitzer, schmoozer, and all-around good Joe. He has known the famous, infamous, nefarious, and fabulous denizens of the music and has lived to tell the tale, and tell it very nicely, thank you. His license plate is the best possible review of his tome: SO FEIN. —Chris Morris, author of Los Lobos: Dream in Blue and Together Through Life: A Personal Journey With the Music of Bob Dylan Edited from about a million words of his legendary journals by the one and only Art Fein of Hollywood, “Rock's In My Head” captures a lifetime of rock and roll obsession with all the fervor and fire of those rockabilly records Fein prized above all others. He is the Ersel Hickey of rock memoirists. You can buy this, you can read this, but you can never be as cool as Art Fein, so just dig it. —Joel Selvin, former columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and author of numerous books, including Monterey Pop, Altamont, The Haight and Hollywood Eden “The City of Los Angeles joyously salutes and celebrates Art Fein. Art is a magnificent chronicler of and contributor to the music scene and artistic living heritage of Los Angeles. This tough-minded yet generous-spirited advocate…has delighted and enlightened countless people who have read his books and articles, heard him speak, or watched his very straightforward and yet wry and even sublime show, Art Fein’s Poker Party. With gentle insistence, he has reminded people how to listen, and how to remember, and how to rejoice when great sounds are reverberating. He is therefore himself an authentic cultural treasure.” —from the Certificate of Appreciation presented by the Los Angeles City Council in 2001 “Art Fein’s Poker Party shows are important documents of rock & roll history, an alternative view to the Dick Clark / Casey Kasem sanitized version of reality. Art’s love of the music and the musicians always shines through.” —Franklin Odel, curator of the SoFein Video YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/c/sofeinvideo).