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Cerphe's Up can be an incisive musical memoir by Cerphe Colwell, a renowned rock and roll radio broadcaster for more than 45 years in Washington, DC. Cerphe stocks his life as a rock and roll radio insider in wealthy detail. His storyline includes promotion and friendship with a unknown Bruce Springsteen; his years at radio station WHFS 102.3 as it blossomed in a fresh freeform format; candid interviews with Little Feat's Lowell George, Tom Waits, Nils Lofgren, Stevie Nicks, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Steven Van Zandt, Robert Herb, Danny Kortchmar, Seldom Scene's John Duffey, and many others; hanging out with George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, John Entwistle, Jackson Browne, and many more; testifying on Capitol Hill with friend Frank Zappa during the "Porn Rock" hearings; and managing the air syndication of both G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Stern. Player listings and selected performances at legendary DC music night clubs Childe Harold and Cellar Door are also chronicled. Cerphe's Up is both historically significant and a fun, revealing ride with a few of the greatest rock-and-roll highfliers of the 20th century. Cerphe's Up belongs on the list of every rock fan, musician, and serious music scholar.
