Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

I'm in the studio with Holly George Warren, author of 16 books.

Most recently, Janus, her life and music, which is what we're going to be talking about today.

Holly is also a two-time Grammy nominee and the longtime editor of Rolling Stones Book Division. a lot of books came out of that job.

Yes over 40 books over the years from photo books anthologies of writing from the magazine

going back to the earliest issues to all kinds of rock and roll

reference books the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia rock and roll album God

illustrated history rock and roll we did it all and you wrote biographies of

Alex Chilton and gene Autry, so this is your third biography.

Yes it is.

But this book Janice for Life and Music is a real accomplishment.

I think the highest compliment I can pay to it is by the end I was

dreading what was coming as I was reading the last 100 to know, 100 to 50 pages.

And then for the first time, although this

is someone who died before I was born,

I never mourned her until I read this book.

And after I finished the book,

I was really, really sad for a while.

You know, her life is in some ways a tragedy, in some ways not.

How do you see that?

Well, yes, I mean, she died way too young.

I came to love Janus myself. She died way too young.

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