Jonathan Taplin with Sheila Weller at Seenyer Social
September 13, 2021 | 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Jonathan Taplin (The Magic Years) in conversation with Sheila Weller (Girls Like Us).
A Seenyer Social exclusive evening with Jonathan Taplin, featuring a conversation about his new book, The Magic Years: Stories from a Rock-and-Roll Life. You’ll hear about Bob Dylan, The Band, George Harrison, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, and many other rock legends. Taplin was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band in the ’60s, producer of major films in the ’70s, and now an esteemed cultural critic and author. Martin Scorsese credits him with getting Mean Streets and The Last Waltz made, and Robbie Robertson wrote, “He has a helluva story to tell. I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t seen a lot of it with my own eyes.” We can’t wait to hear some of those stories.
Taplin talks to Sheila Weller, author of Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon – And the Journey of a Generation.
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Jonathan Taplin
Jonathan Taplin is an author and director emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Taplin’s book Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, published by Little, Brown & Company, was nominated by the Financial Times as one of the Best Business Books of 2017. Taplin has produced music and film for Bob Dylan and the Band, George Harrison, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Gus Van Sant, and many others. He was the founder of Intertainer, the first streaming video-on-demand platform in 1996.
Taplin graduated from Princeton University. He was a professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism from 2003 to 2016. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He currently sits on the boards of the Authors Guild, the Americana Music Association, and Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti’s Technology and Innovation Council. His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Huffington Post, the Guardian, Medium, the Washington Monthly, and the Wall Street Journal.
