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“You have to put this in context,” Lisa Robinson told Hollywood on the Potomac in a sit down interview prior to her book party for There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll at the W Hotel. “It was in the seventies, things just happened.”
Lisa Robinson with NPR’s Bob Boilen of All Songs Considered
The legendary music journalist recanted ‘road’ tales as a non-groupie. “Led Zeppelin was the wildest band I toured with in the seventies,” she told us. “It was sex, drugs and rock and roll, but I only participated in the rock and roll.”
“I wrote a lot about John Lennon because I spent a lot of time with [him] in the seventies and it’s interesting because when he first came to New York he was very accessible. John and Yoko – it was very much John and Yoko one word – and they lived on Bank Street in Greenich Village and they were living this sort of Bohemian, beatnik life – it just wasn’t that big a deal to get to them.”
DJ Chris Richards, Washington Post Pop Music Critic
On Studio 54: Owned by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, Studio 54 was NYC’s most famous and over the top nightclub of the seventies that hosted regulars that included Stevie Wonder, Debbie Harry, Mick & Bianca Jagger, Andy Warhol, Cher, Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart and Woody Allen. “Steve Rubell was extremely welcoming to me,” she stated, “and we became really really good friends. And then,” she said hesitantly, “he went to jail. And then, when he came back from jail, we taught a course together called New York Night Life.”
“Andy (Warhol) loved gossip,” she said, “and he kept a tape recorder on all the time and he influenced a lot of us in New York to keep a tape recorder on all the time.”
One on One with Lisa Robinson:
