By: Deborah Speer
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Joel SelvinAuther and music journalist Joel Selvin Author and journalist Joel Selvin spent almost 40 years as the pop music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1972 to 2009, giving him a front row seat to one of the most vibrant eras of popular music history and one of its most enigmatic scenes. He co-wrote Sammy Hagar’s acclaimed memoir, “Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock” and collaborated with such figures as L.A. Reid, Randy Bachman, rock photographer Jim Marshall, Ed Hardy, and the author/musicians of the Rock Bottom Remainders. He’s written books on the Summer of Love in San Francisco and the deadly debacle of “Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day”