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Marc Spitz’s book on rock and roll cinema, “Loud Pictures,” will be released by Dey Street Books/Harper Collins in 2017.   Follow Marc Spitz at @marcspitz

They don’t make them like Ralph Bakshi anymore: “Now, animators don’t have ideas. They just like to move things around”

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(AP/Martial Trezzini)

The real genius of “Sweet Jane”: The 2 little letters out of Lou Reed’s mouth that say so much

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(Paramount Pictures)

“Elizabethtown” isn’t the worst movie ever: Why Cameron Crowe’s flaming fiasco deserves a second look

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(AP)

I always give you my money: How many times will I buy the same Beatles records, over and over again?

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(AP)

Praying at the church of rock and roll: How John Lennon made me a skeptic, Morrissey made me a believer and “Exile on Main Street” never let me down

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(BB Gun Press)

Chris Cornell is in no hurry to join Nirvana in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: “That seems like a gold watch”

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(MSO/Paul Heartfield)

The King of the Punks looks at 60: John Lydon on his Sex Pistols past, his new album and why he’s still “a work in progress”

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(Reuters/Mario Anzuoni/AP/Lennox McLendon/Wikimedia/Rowland Scherman)

This is the laziest rhyme in all of songwriting history — and great artists use it all the time

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Sparks (allsparks.com)

Sparks: The true godfathers of free-form, eclectic modern rock

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Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol (AP)

Edie Sedgwick, eternal It Girl: 50 years after “Poor Little Rich Girl,” she remains an icon

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Thomas Jay Ryan and James Urbaniak in "Henry Fool"

Hal Hartley’s epic oral history: The “Henry Fool” trilogy, Parker Posey and the real sage of ’90s indie film

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Marky Ramone (AP/Star Shooter)

The last Ramone standing: “We were 90 percent fun and 10 percent pent-up animosity”

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Keanu Reeves and Crispin Glover in "River's Edge"

“River’s Edge”: The darkest teen film of all time

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Viv Albertine (Michael Putland)

The Slits’ Viv Albertine: “I can be older and still live by those punk maxims “

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“Fast Times” and “Risky Business” created the ’80s: How these iconic teen films led the way to “Heathers” and John Hughes

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Carrie Brownstein, Wes Anderson (IFC/Augusta Quirk/Reuters/Thomas Peter)

It isn’t easy being twee: Why the Wes Anderson aesthetic is good for everyone

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