Mark Myers book 'Anatomy of 55 More Songs,' drawn from his long-running Wall Street Journal column, goes behind the creative process with 55 iconic hits.
Aerosmith was blaring from one end of the hallway, Joni Mitchell from the other.
People are also reading… The year-old book, a follow up to his 2016 “Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop,” tells the backstories of iconic songs as told by their creators. The books are drawn from his longtime Wall Street Journal column that ran from 2012 to 2022, when he retired it.
“I ended up doing Mick Jagger. Mick Jagger is calling me up on the phone for an interview. You pick up the phone: ‘Hello, Marc. It’s Mick’,” he recalled, affecting a British accent. “Or Keith Richards. It got to the point that I interviewed Keith twice. He loved it so much the first time when we did ‘Street Fighting Man’ that when I wanted to interview him again, which was a couple of years later, he calls up and he says, ‘Hello, Marc. It’s Keith.’ ‘Hey Keith, how you doing?’ ‘I’m fine.
“I always wanted to be doing what I’m doing now,” Myers said. “I write on rock. I interview people like Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Joni Mitchell. I’m a late bloomer. I come to this in 2010. I started at the New York Times, and then I weave around in all kinds of areas and then wind up writing about the very thing I wanted to write about, which is movie stars and rock stars.”
Reader response to the oral history format was impressive, he said. And the artists were thrilled, as well. Here was a journalist calling them not about their latest personal tragedy, drug rehab or broken relationship. Myers wanted to know about their art.What were they talking about, Jagger asked him. Your art; how you created “Moonlight Mile,” Myers responded.
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