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The L.A. Times' emeritus pop music editor has a memoir of his decades covering the business — "Corn Flakes with John Lennon And Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life" — coming in October from Rodale. What better time to start tweeting and put up his first website and blog, including recommendations, short reviews and testimonials from the likes of Elton John and Yoko Ono?
RobertHilburnOnline.com has photos of himself with Johnny Cash at Folsom prison and with Keith Richards, reports on his favorite road trips, what's in his jukebox at home, and blog items on "Bob-certified" albums and websites. (He's a fan of metacritic.com.)
The emphasis on my home jukebox is on records I loved in the 1950s and 1960s, which for me was the jukebox era. I haven’t changed the 50 records much since I bought the jukebox in the early 1970s. But I thought it would be fun to put together jukebox lists for different eras: the 1950s-1960s, the 1970s-1980s and 1990s-2000s....The jukebox, by the way, is a classic Seeburg Select-o-matic from the mid-1950s. I bought it at a jukebox repair shop in Los Angeles in the 1970s for under $50. And it still works.
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Photo: Bob Gruen