David Dalton Archive

David Dalton is the author of some fifteen books including James Dean: the Mutant King, Faithfull (with Marianne Faithfull) and Rock 100 (with Lenny Kaye). His most recent book, Been Here and Gone: A Memoir of the Blues, is his first novel. A founding contributor to Rolling Stone, Dalton has written for Mojo, Penthouse, Paris Match and Fishwrap. He lives in upstate New York with his wife, Coco, his son, Toby, and 78 other critters.

The Marble Index
David Dalton talks to Danny Fields about Nico's classic album.
06-24-02

Epiphany at Zuma Beach Or Brian Wilson Hallucinates Me
05-06-02

At Home with Sid & Nancy
David Dalton on The Osbournes
04-15-02

The Curse of the Multiplying Mariannes
Part 1:
The Scattered Selves
Part 2:
Sex with Strangers
03-18-02


The Off-Ramp Motel as a 3-Page Suicide Note
02-04-02


I Just Film:
Filmmaker Les Blank talks to David Dalton
01-28-02


The Most Influential Author of the Millennium. Not.
01-14-02


With This Ring, I Thee Dread:
David Dalton takes on hobbits, orcs, and Peter Jackson.
01-07-02


The Day the Angels Spent Christmas With the Beatles
12-24-01


We Got Dem Ol' Minstrelsy Blues Again, Mama
(Nick Tosches Explains It All)
12-10-01

My Walk-On in the Life of George
12-03-01

God (Marianne Faithfull) and the Devil (Anita Pallenberg) talk to David Dalton about their Ab Fab episode
12-03-01


What Fresh Hell Is This?
David Dalton talks to Richard Hell about his new book, Hot and Cold
11-19-01


An Infidel In Afghanistan
Part I: Iran
Part II: Herat, A City Half as Old as Time
Part III: The Fleshpots of Asia
11-12-01


Old Gods Almost Dead:
David Dalton talks to Rolling Stones author Stephen Davis
11-12-01


Gregory Corso
Last of the Beats
6-25-01

The Year Abbie Hoffman Changed the Channel
5-07-01


Print Archive Articles

Something Was Happening, But I Didn't Know What It Was
September/October '00

Frida Kahlo: Mexican Visionary
June '99

I Film While Leaping from My Chair
D. A. Pennebaker on Bob Dylan, John Lennon, cinema vérité and Mary Poppins
April '99


A Stroke of Genius
Reflections on Jackson Pollock's Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
December '98


MORE DAVID DALTON...