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he only ones and she has had articles published in renowned british music magazines such as mojo and uncut antonia has certainly come a long way from being an unhappy little girl who used her daydreams of the dolls thunders and smiley as an escape in the following interview which was conducted via e mail during march of 2007 she candidly discusses her journey bess korey in the prettiest star you mentioned that when you were trying to find a publisher for your first book johnny thunders in cold blood one of the publishers you showed the book to had the gall to tell you that women shouldn t and can t write about music the lengthy resume that you have created as a music writer since then has certainly proved him wrong was that the only time that you have had to deal with sexist behavior in the publishing world or have there been other instances over the years as well also do you think that people have become more accepting of female music journalists since the 80s or does it seem to you like women who write about music are still made to feel like they have something to prove nina antonia throughout my time as a rock n roll writer i ve often had to deal with sexism so the first incident which you mention from the prettiest star was kind of a precursor it s not quite as bad now as it was in the 70s but i ve watched as male contemporaries in the same field have been offered the opportunity to make a decent career while i ve had to scratch out a living in the music press there is still the sense that the male voice in print at least is the most authoritative in the uk there are usually one to two women writing for each rock magazine if they re lucky this is the quota filled i have to admit however that i m also not one of the boys i don t hang out at the pub with the guys from whatever rock mag and this also goes against the grain as do the bands i m usually associated with the most infuriating incident i encountered was from an american writer a woman which made it all the more galling who was writing a book about women in rock n roll and contacted me about two years ago with a query about 70s groupie glamour queen sabel starr i was as helpful as possible and let her know that i did the last interview with sabel in my new york dolls book ironically when the book came out the journalist sourced a male author who hadn t actually spoken to sabel and totally ignored the dolls book i got a teensy thanks which was lost in the footnotes i can t say whether people have become more accepting of female music journalists because i can only answer from my own experiences on a more positive note however i do get lovely feedback about my books from lots of guys so the fault if there is one lies within the media s attitude not with the rock reader from what can be gathered in reading about your life in the prettiest star you ve never been reckless or self destructive like the musicians that you choose to write about why do you think that you have such a strong desire to write about the dark side of rock n roll and does writing about such things help you stay grounded i suppose you could say i was emotionally reckless and self destructive in some of the relationships i embarked upon but as a single parent i had to learn to survive as well i probably have a strong desire to write about the dark side of rock n roll because it reflects something in me an echo of my childhood which fashioned my outlook on life also traditional success stories are pretty boring i d rather write about the authentic people who have had to struggle yet triumphed by getting their records out against the odds people whose lives are real i hate high gloss air brushed perfection and mtv homogenization authors like nelson algren john rechy and jean genet influenced me because they understood the poetry of the gutter i am grounded because i ve had to be to pay the rent how would you describe brett smiley and the effect he has had on your life to people who have not read your book the prettiest star which is both brett s biography and my autobiography is amongst other things a reflection on the ephemeral quality of pop music as a glam phenomenon brett was as fleeting as a snowflake which gave him and the music a magical quality he was the greta garbo of teeny pop elusiveness can be a great quality the imaginary brett character belongs to my early teens brett smiley of today is a very different person much more earthy as is his music i perceive him like a figure in a fairy story someone remembered from another lifetime whilst wishing the real brett all the very best with his future endeavors besides he is very much concerned with the now as well what inspired you to write a book about peter perrett of the only ones peter is like a modern day baudelaire if you don t know baudelaire s work it s incredibly contemporary in its jaded cynicism yet it has a timeless morbid beauty to it perrett and baudelaire also share the same predilections for dissipation as well perrett is one of the most anti establishment people i ve ever met he refuses to live within society s rules peter is a truly mythical figure i once described him in an article as being the syd barrett of the new wave there is a lot of mystique surrounding perrett that continues to exert a fascination over people the only ones music is kind of baroque grandiose almost it s the sound of opium dreams and car crashes refinement and chaos the only ones have just reformed and are going to be playing gigs this summer in england so i may update the book even though you re a female writer you ve chosen to chronicle the lives of male musicians as opposed to female ones does gender play a role at all when you choose the topics you want to write about the two female artists i would have most wanted to write about were debbie harry and nico i think they are both wonderful and indeed i ve done sleeve notes for a nico cd however i always write about artists who have largely been under the radar in terms of media coverage when i wrote about the new york dolls they hadn t yet reformed and hit the comeback trail but that s a bit of a tangent what i m trying to say is that i didn t think there was a need for me to write about debbie harry or nico as there were perfectly good books already out about both of them it s not an issue of gender either it s always been about whose work and style moves me which book do you like best out of the four you ve written and is that the one you enjoyed writing most johnny thunders in cold blood is the one that means the most to me because it was my first book and entailed a lot of struggle i put my soul into it and got to work closely with johnny who was my rock n roll hero it s also the book that i get the most feedback on johnny captured a lot of people s hearts and in cold blood is an authentic document it originally came out in 1987 first editions can cost quite a lot if you can find a copy i only have one left it was revised and updated a couple of years ago and it s the new version available through cherry red books that is still in print nina antonia with crooked j are you working on any new books or projects right now i had a difficult experience with the last book i tried to get off the ground which was going to be an alternative look at glam at this stage of the game i m too weary to fight for what should be obvious i e a decent advance and a reasonable timeframe for writing a book right now i m concentrating on managing a band called the skuzzies their front man crooked j is my partner if i m going to write about any band at all it will be the skuzzies they have the grimy allure of the city after midnight and incorporate everything i ve ever found inspiring in music and literature whilst being totally themselves when you were younger could you have ever imagined that your life would turn out this way does the fact that you have been so involved with the lives of your heroes seem surreal to you at all or does it just feel normal now in my early teens i spent most of my life in daydreams as this was preferable to real life my dream was to meet johnny thunders i suppose my dreams came true but of course things never turned out in the way one anticipates life is bittersweet as were my experiences of getting to know johnny and writing his biography his life was far from perfect as was mine but it was still the realization of something very special and finding creative fulfillment is rewarding writing too much too soon was a completely different experience it was more of an elegy to the original new york dolls a fond goodbye to answer your question i don t think i could have lived my life any other way my books gave me a voice that would otherwise have gone unheard an interview with the legendary cherry vanilla february 25 2011 6 13 am posted in uncategorized tagged 70s glam rock andy warhol cherry vanilla david bowie female punk rockers mad men leave a comment this is the uncut version of an interview that appeared on venus zine s website during december 2010 and features additional questions cherry vanilla answered that did not appear in the venus zine interview interview cherry vanilla the 60s and 70s music scene legend talks about what inspired her to write her new book lick me raves about the realism of mad men and shares some recollections of her times with andy warhol and david bowie by bess korey cherry vanilla s autobiography lick me how i became cherry vanilla was released during november 2010 and it is a no holds barred account of her life and career during the 60s and 70s during those decades she was a successful mad woman in the advertising industry collaborated with andy warhol and was one of his superstars had a personal relationship with david bowie while she was doing pr work for him during the glam rock era and had her own music career as a punk rocker during the mid late 70s all of these achievements and more are covered in lick me and she touches on some of these milestones from her life in the following interview what inspired you to write a book about your life story at this point in time the kids who are in the rock scene now have so many more worries than i had when i was young there s so much fear in the air there are real threats of course but also i think the government keeps us all in check by making us fearful and promoting the fact that they are our big protectors george bush and dick cheney really used this tactic a lot i wanted to promote a bit of fearlessness at least about art activism and sexuality for them and for the older folks like me i just wanted to remind them of the wild good times we had when things were not so scary as they are now make em count their blessings for having had such a fabulous youth and rejoice in the fact that we ve survived was it tough for you to write about so many personal things that happened to you and since you name names did you worry at all about how people may respond to the book it was extremely cathartic to write about so many personal things but also extremely painful at times i m a very practical person and i move on fast from failure tragedy and the like but all of the hurts and feelings i had buried so long ago came to the surface once again and had to be dealt with in a much deeper way once i started writing about them but then of course remembering all of the fabulous rock roll nights i d had the extreme joy of getting so close to the music and the musicians i loved really made me feel so extremely lucky i mean for a little irish catholic girl from queens i certainly had some rare and incredible experiences as for worrying about what anyone might think i had to put that out of my mind and try to tell the absolute truth about every encounter and every situation no matter what i think that as long as you strive so hard to portray things as they actually were and it was all so long ago i don t think that people should have any reason to get upset and even though i reveal so much about myself and my innermost feelings embarrassing moments and such i really tried hard not to reveal too much personal stuff about those in the situations i describe i mean i might tell everything about how fabulous it was to be in bed with david bowie kris kristofferson and the like but i would never discuss the size of anybody s penis or those kinds of tacky details do you watch the show mad men and if so based on your experiences of working on madison avenue do you feel as if it is a true representation of what was going on in advertising during that era oh my god they got it so right i can t believe it it s exactly as it was they even mention rattazzi s restaurant where i had my first poetry reading and what a reminder of just how fortunate i was i mean i kind of knew that women had a hard time in that world but i somehow just didn t think that it applied to me i was so naïve and that might have been my saving grace in a way i just assumed that if i did my job well and got along with my co workers that i would be rewarded with responsibilities raises and positions befitting my work ethic and my talents and i think that naïveté kind of saved me i just seemed to sail through the obstacles and i became one of the very few radio tv producers and casting directors on madison avenue at the time the only thing they haven t covered thus far in mad men is fire island and the lsd scene which was very big with all of us mad avers at the time i am waiting to see that episode maybe they will lift one from my book or maybe i could help them write one do any of the female characters on mad men remind you of yourself back then well i see a bit of me in all of them peggy certainly captures the advancements i made career wise but i wasn t as dark or dorky as they portray her in the show looks and attitude wise i was much more like joan but i was more independent and ambitious than she seems to be i certainly wasn t like betty i didn t want to be anybody s wife or girlfriend back then i wanted to be free to screw around all i wanted and to pay my own rent and my own way how do you feel working on madison avenue influenced your later career and your time doing pr work for david bowie you know what we did on madison avenue was paid advertising it was the corporate world and it s where i learned the methods and the rules of promotion but when i started doing pr for bowie what thrilled me most was discovering how much press coverage one could actually get for nothing via public relations and that s when i learned how to combine them both i remember when the great fashion critic mr blackwell put bowie on his worst dressed female list i saw that as a great opportunity to make a very inexpensive radio campaign out of it which was then written about and talked about so much in the press and in important social circles that we got ten times our money s worth out of it we didn t really have huge amounts of money on hand to promote david back then 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