That's How Strong My Love Is: From Rock-n-Roll to James Dean

THAT'S HOW STRONG MY LOVE IS: from Rock-n-Roll to James Dean begins in the early 1960s and continues through the decades to 2015. The book details my first-hand rock-n-roll experiences, including personal accounts of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Iggy Pop and many others. It chronicles the British invasion, my friendship with Andy Warhol in 1968, the gay rights movement, the hippie years, the glam rock scene, and the punk rock years in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. James Dean enters the story in 1974 when I read David Dalton’s book James Dean: The Mutant King. As the book progresses James Dean becomes more and more prevalent in the story until I ultimately leave New York and move to Indiana to open The James Dean Gallery. It’s a Rock n Roll love story but it’s also a story of courage and survival when two gay young men move from New York City to a small Indiana town to open a James Dean Museum and the opposition and ordeals that were endured along the way. The book targets rock n roll history buffs, James Dean fans, pop culture enthusiasts, and those interested in the gay rights struggle. It offers an inside look at the counterculture of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. "David Loehr’s incredible story has so many exciting, surprising twists and turns - from the center of New York rock and roll highlife to creating the James Dean Gallery in the icon’s small American town. His tale of heart-lifting love and courageous challenges will pull you right in. Celebrities and hometown folk light up the pages, equal players in David Loehr’s inspiring life well lived". ~ Pamela Des Barres