“The Magic Years remarkably shares how Jon Taplin was on the front lines of so many pivotal and historic events. He has a helluva story to tell. I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t seen a lot of it with ...

On a special digital exclusive episode of The Treatment, Elvis welcomes Jonathan Taplin, author of the new memoir “The Magic Years” and Director Emeritus of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. The book ...

Aug. 21—Jonathan Taplin was standing on the stage wing when Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. He was at Monterrey Pop when Otis, then Janis and THEN Jimi individually and ...

In this vivid albeit occasionally shallow memoir, Taplin (Outlaw Blues) recounts his extraordinary life spent with major cultural figures of the last half-century. As an “apprentice road manager for ...

Jonathan Taplin had just graduated from high school in 1965 when fate delivered him backstage at the Newport Folk Festival on the weekend Bob Dylan plugged in his electric guitar and turned the worlds ...

T Bone Burnett is a Grammy and Academy Award-winning producer, guitarist and songwriter. Jonathan Taplin is director emeritus at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and the author of “Move Fast and Break ...

In The End of Reality (PublicAffairs, Sept.), USC digital studies professor Taplin argues that Big Tech billionaires are selling people a false future. When did you realize technology companies were ...

Jonathan Taplin wasn’t present at the creation, but in rock & roll terms, he came close enough. He witnessed Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, saw Jimi Hendrix and many others at ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jonathan Taplin is an Author with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2001 Roundtable as a President and CEO for the Intertainer, Inc.. Authors ...