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This episode is an interview with Christopher Knowles titled “The Mystery Origins of Modern Music” and is being released on Monday, January 31, 2011. My interview with Christopher was recorded on January 29, 2011.
Today we’ll be discussing the ancient mystery tradition origins of modern rock and roll with Christopher Knowles regarding his new book The Secret History of Rock ‘N’ Roll.
Christopher Knowles is the author of the Eagle Award-winning Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes and the critically-acclaimed Clash City Showdown: The Music, The Meaning and The Legacy of The Clash. He’s also co-author of The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies, the authorized companion to the long-running TV series.
He was a longtime associate editor and contributing writer for the five-time Eisner Award-winning magazine Comic Book Artist and has contributed feature articles to magazines like Comic Book Marketplace and the popular industry website, Comic Book Resources.
Christopher has also written features, columns and reviews for Classic Rock, one of the top music magazines from the UK. His Jimmy Page cover-story was featured in the best-selling issue in that magazine’s history.
Christopher has appeared at the New York Comicon and lectured on pop culture and mythology at the Center for Theory and Research at the legendary Esalen Institute in Big Sur in 2008 and 2009.
Christopher has appeared in the documentaries Wendy O. Williams and The Plasmatics (MVD Visual), Wonder Woman: Daughter of Myth (Warner Bros.) and The Man, the Myth, Superman (Warner Bros.) Christopher has appeared on the popular ABC newsmagazine 20/20 as well as numerous podcasts and radio talk shows on NPR, Voice of America and various commercial stations.
Read Christopher’s blog at: http://secretsun.blogspot.com/