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December 22nd, 2023

Capturing the Legends: Photographer Neal Preston's Rock Odyssey

  1. Capturing the Legends: Photographer Neal Preston's Rock Odyssey Christy Alexander Hallberg 1:17:04

Hey, Lit Listeners, prepare for an epic journey into the heart of rock history with a living legend behind the lens—Neal Preston. In this exclusive Rock is Lit episode, we step into Neal’s unparalleled career spanning five decades. We talk about his background in NY and how he developed a Love of music and photography, his unique style and philosophy as a photojournalist, his experiences working with Led Zeppelin in the hedonistic 1970s, his 50-year friendship with Cameron Crowe, and the stories-behind-the-story of ‘Almost Famous’.

Also, get ready for a deep dive into Neal’s iconic photograph of Jimmy Page at Kezar Stadium in 1973, which plays a major role in my rock novel, ‘Searching for Jimmy Page’. And, of course, Neal shares captivating tales from his 2017 book, ‘Exhilarated and Exhausted’.

*You can also view this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvNwNXH8jTE

ALL MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IS ROYALTY-FREE FROM YOUTUBE



LINKS:

Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451

Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350

Neal Preston’s website: https://www.prestonpictures.com/

Neal Preston on Instagram: @nealprestonphoto

Neal Preston on Facebook: @NealPrestonPhotography

Neal’s digital Led Zeppelin book, ‘Led Zeppelin: Sound and Fury’ on Apple iBookstore: https://books.apple.com/us/book/led-zeppelin-sound-and-fury/id624738803

Danny Goldberg on Season 1 Episode 7 of Rock is Lit: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/rockislitpodcast/christyalexanderhallberg/margaretbauer/randallmartoccia/lizawieland/dannygoldberg

Christy Alexander Hallberg’s website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/rockislit

Christy Alexander Hallberg on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg

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Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the award-winning novel 'Searching for Jimmy Page' (Livingston Press, 2021) and host of Rock is Lit, the first podcast devoted to rock novels. She is a Teaching Professor of English at East Carolina University and serves as Senior Associate Editor of 'North Carolina Literary Review'. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and interviews have appeared in many journals, including 'storySouth', 'Still: The Journal', 'Fiction Southeast', ‘Litro’, ‘STORGY’, ‘Entropy’, and 'Eclectica'.