Martin Torgoff

Author of Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

About the Author

Martin Torgoff has been a contributing editor at Interview and a producer for CNN "World Beat." He is a documentary filmmaker and the author of several books, including the bestselling Elvis: We Love You Tender and American Fool: The Roots and Improbable Rise of John Cougar Mellencamp, which won an show more ASCAP Deems Taylor award. He lives in New York City with his wife and son show less

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Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000 (2004) 117 copies, 1 review

Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs (2017) 35 copies, 1 review

Elvis, We Love You Tender (1980) — Author — 34 copies

American Fool: The Roots and Improbable Rise of John Cougar Mellencamp (1986) 10 copies

Complete Elvis (1982) 4 copies

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kylekatz 475 reviews

Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs by Martin Torgoff

2017. Great book about how drugs inspired jazz and the Beat Generation. Really sad. So many people die. Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Kerouac and Neal Cassady. But some people kick the drugs: Miles Davis, Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins. Lots of great tidbits about what the Beats were listening to, and how they all knew each other.

Dec 4, 2025

etmr 18 reviews

Can't Find My Way Home by Martin Torgoff