Neil Young has a solution to the crisis in Detroit

Blogging on Huffington Post--the great rocker says:

Find a new ownership group. The culture must change. It is time to turn the page. In the high technology sector there are several candidates for ownership of a major car and truck manufacturer. We need forward looking people who are not restricted by the existing culture in Detroit. We need visionary people now with business sense to create automobiles that do not contribute to global warming.

It is time to change and our problems can facilitate our solutions. We can no longer afford to continue down Detroit's old road. The people have spoken. They do not want gas guzzlers (although they still like big cars and trucks). It is possible to build large long-range vehicles that are very efficient. People will buy those vehicles because they represent real change and a solution that we can live with.

BabyBoomReview Celebrates Obama's Historic Victory!

BabyBoom Review is currently collecting the experiences of those who lived through the sixties and want to write about what they learned that can apply to the new Obama administration.

In the spirit of this project and connecting the generations--take a look at this very sixties video tribute to Obama (see below) and then check out the art of Michael Cuffe at his website

Paul Simon Donates Song to Obama Campaign

Paul Simon babyboom tune smith extraordainaire gives his very appropriate song
"American Tune" to the Obama campaign for
use in an effective ad. Go watch here:

Ralph McTell Back in the Swing

Sounds of Ralph McTell and Dylan share top bill
Oct 31 2008 Folk With Pete Willow
RALPH McTELL and the Dylan Project share the billing for a one-off musical treat in the Midlands tomorrow. Birmingham Town Hall Singer-songwriter and Ivor Novello award-winner McTell will start the evening with a solo set and will be playing such all-time favourites as Streets of London and From Clare to Here.
The date at Birmingham Town Hall will also be the only Midlands appearance of his current UK tour.
The second half sees blues-rock singer and guitarist Steve Gibbons, fronting an all-star line-up playing powerful arrangements of Bob Dylan songs.

BabyBoomReview Announces New Video Competition

BabyboomReview launches a new You Tube competition--video your own album, movie and book review
More points if you do it against a historic site like BabyBoom co-founder, Mike Peters did at Abbey Road Studios, in London's St Johns Wood neighborhood, close to where both founders lived in the 1970s..





Send in your videos to You Tube and send us the link at bboomreview@gmail.com

New Podcast Explores Suze Rotolo's Relationship with Dylan

I discussed the memoir Suze Rotolo published recently entitled A Freewheelin Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the 1960s with Chris Hale--a well known author and film director and regular contributor to BabyBoom Review. There is both a tender and a dark side to the relationship with Rotolo and the memoir allows us to see both aspects. Rotolo's honest self aware account of her relationship with arguably the greatest singer songwriter
of our era reveals the difficulty of being a proto feminist in the 1960s when the expectations for girlfriends of famous artists was to simply be available and not complain about your second string status. We discuss these tensions in the context of Dylan's the evolving relationship--and how their affair marked a turning point in both young people's lives. The podcast is roughly 25 minutes--give it a listen and let us know what you think by emailing us at bboomreview@google.com..

You can listen to the podcast by going to http://babyboomreview.podbean.com/ or clicking on the tab marked "podcast" on the
babyboomreview website. You can also while there listen to interviews with Rick Perlstein and David Hajdu concerning Nixon and the later Dylan relationships with Joan Baez and Richard Farina respectively.

Invitation to Write and Get Published On the 1960s

Invitation to Contribute to a Different Kind of Sixties Publishing Project: Voices from the Sixties: Baby Boomers' Experiences and Reflections 50 Years On

If you lived through the 60s and - better yet - are one of the few who can remember it – then we have a project for you! We are in the initial stages of negotiating with publishers to bring out an anthology of essays that will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1960s through individual stories describing some key moments that made the writers aware that they were living through interesting and possibly historic times.

OK, you have some questions. Go ahead -

So what counts as important? Clearly you define that for yourself. You don’t need to have met one of the Beatles or spent time with Jerry Rubin, walked with Martin Luther King or witnessed the Kent State shootings—you just need to be able to write about a moment when something crystallized in your mind. Call it an “epiphany” or just a plain old thought—that here was some history occurring in front of your eyes and one day you might look back on it and tell your grandchildren. It could be the time you were beaten up for having long hair, the moment you listened to the first ________ name your band, the moment you saw racist/sexist language or actions in a new light, as not simply racist but as unacceptable and important enough to demonstrate against.

Now what counts as connecting with current readers? Here we have to be even less prescriptive. It will be up to each writer to suggest for the reader as vividly as possible the way a particular moment changed him or her and to comment on how it might have led to a new way of seeing or thinking or acting. So to paraphrase Orwell, who says in one of his essays if any of the “rules” gets in the way of good writing – we will waive them in a heartbeat!

What length are you looking for? Contributors should shoot for between 500 and 2000 words.

Will I get paid for my work? Needless to say, we would do some revenue sharing from the publication with our writers.

When do I need to submit by? We look forward to hearing expressions of intent (with a brief outline of what you intend to write) by December 15th 2008

How do I find out more?

To find out more details and ask any questions, please get in touch by e-mailing us at bboomreview@gmail.com