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He said, 'Did I do the album? Did I stay at your house? I was so drunk in those days.'\")\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. Fein knows--and reports--startling and intimate details about Spector that have appeared nowhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdvance praise for \u003cem\u003eRock's in My Head: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Art Fein knows records, and a lot of the people who made records. He interviewed hundreds of them on his long-running cable TV show. He was the DJ at my wedding reception, and the dance floor was always full! He's a great writer, too. Read this book!\" [radio host \u003cstrong\u003eDr. Demento]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Edited from about a million words of his legendary journals by the one and only Art Fein of Hollywood, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRock's in My Head\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\" [journalist and author \u003cstrong\u003eJoel Selvin]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everybody oughta get to know Art Fein, and this wonderful book is the best way to do it. Art has served rock \u0026amp; 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 lived to tell the tale. 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