After the publication of Can’t Find My Way Home and my appearance as one of the principal commentators in The Drug Years, the popular VH-1 series based on the book, I was invited to Brown University, the University of Florida, Wayne State, and other colleges, where I delivered widely attended lectures about different aspects of the drug culture in America.
Since then, in addition to speaking about drug culture, I’ve developed presentations about the history of rock and roll, the music industry, the sexual revolution, and the rise of the celebrity culture in 20th Century America, all of them based on extensive research for different projects.
All inquiries about public speaking engagements should be made through this website.
Discussing Bop Apocalypse with John Tytell at the Strand bookstore in New York, January of 2017
With students, after speaking at Brown University, February of 2006.
Reading from Can't Find My Way Home at Barnes & Noble, New York City, June of 2004.
Panel discussion for Planet Rock at Paley Center For Media (l to r, Grandmaster Flash, me, Richard Lowe, Nelson George, Azie Faison, Ice-T, Barry Michael Cooper).
