Results of a Misspent Youth = CREEM Documentary
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The 1980 and 2016 versions of CREEM’s Boy Howdy! T-shirt.
The release of the CREEM documentary sent me into personal archives to revisit how beautifully the magazine and its staff warped my mind, musically and otherwise.
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Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick on the cover of CREEM December 1979
Many of the talking heads in the documentary share their first encounter of the magazine. I thought mine was the issue shown above, but it turns out it was the first issue I bought whereas CREEM got its hooks into me 16 months previous.
Read my review of the CREEM documentary and how it shaped my future.
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Legendary Rush article by the late John Kordosh in CREEM June 1981.
Sad Side Note: while researching for this article, I was crushed to learn that John Kordosh died in 2017. His CREEM articles and world view are peerless, IMO. His Rush article (shown above) remains the journalistic gold standard I judge everything by.