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Confessions of a Rock 'n' Roll Name-Dropper:
My Life Leading Up to John Lennon's Last Interview
2025
April 26-27, 2025
I'll be taking part in the 30th. annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books from 10am to 6pm both days of the weekend! It's the largest, most popular book fair in the entire country, and takes place on the USC campus at 3501 Trousdale Pkwy. I'll be displaying, discussing, signing and selling copies of my book at the ReadersMagnet outdoor author's booth #225 by the entrance - hope to meet up with plenty of people interested in reading my book!
April 23, 2025
I enjoyed my appearance and BookTalk session at The ReadersMagnet Book Confab at the Hilton Hotel's Hiro space next to Universal Studios in L.A.'s Universal City! I let everyone know how I at last managed to start writing my life story wrapped around John Lennon's final interview a full 40 years after my RKO Radio team and I spent hours talking with him and Yoko Ono at the Dakota way back on December 8th. 1980! I was also happy to display, autograph and sell my books to excited readers!
March 28-30, 2025
I'm taking part in the next Fest for Beatles Fans at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City in New Jersey! I'll be one of the awesome Beatles Authors signing and selling my book, and I'll discuss what tragically turned out to be John Lennon's final interview, which I co-conducted for RKO Radio at the Dakota on December 8, 1980 mere hours before he was shot and killed! So much great Beatles-related music and many events will be part of all 3 Fest days, and besides being the Fest's 51st anniversary, they'll be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the release of Rubber Soul! Hope you can make it!
2024
November 9, 2024
Great Saturday at the Twentynine Palms Book Festival sharing signing and discussion events with several other great music book authors including my friend Cary Baker! Here's photos of me about to set up our signing table with Cary, then all of us sitting down and waiting for our book buyers to come to us with the copies they just bought! And finally, our Books and Beats discussion panel shot featuring me introducing and discussing my well-received book!
November 8-9 2024
I'm guesting at the upcoming 29 Palms Book Festival - here's the link with all the agendas, details, locations, etc: https:///www.29pbf.com My memoir and I will be taking part on Saturday 11/9 in everything from book sales and signings to Books and Beats, the discussion group for music book authors! My book signing is from 12:30-1:30pm, and then our music-themed book event kicks off at 4pm the same day! Happy to let you know admission is free!
September 8, 2024
Barnes & Noble Santa Monica Promenade store is re-opening after being closed for years - so happy to be invited to have a Book Signing Event there, plus book discussion and Q&A! Address - 1318 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401
August 9-11, 2024
Pleased to be invited and scheduled as a special guest author for this year's annual Chicago Fest for Beatles Fans, but although I'm unfortunately unable to go, my book will still be displayed and signed copies available!
December 6, 2023
The new British docuseries I'm a guest on - JOHN LENNON: MURDER WITHOUT A TRIAL- will be released on Apple TV.
The production company is 72 Films. Director/Producer Nick Holt interviewed me for the series which has been nominated for three Critics Choice Documentary Awards.
As Nick informed me, "It's been a lot of work, but we couldn't have done it without you, Laurie. Thank you so much for being so generous with your time for the series and for your fascinating interview, which features in Episode 1.”
OUR LIPS UNSEALED - Author event at Tom Bergin's Bar.
Live Reading of the bulk of my book's introductory 1st chapter - Imagine-My Lead-up to Lennon
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