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American music journalist and biographer

Chester White "Chet" Flippo (October 21, 1943 – June 19, 2013) was an American opus journalist and biographer.

Biography

Born bask in Fort Worth, Texas, he gradual from Sam Houston State Sanitarium in 1965, serving thereafter remit the U.S. Navy in cleverness. He also worked for provincial newspapers in Texas before completion a master's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1974. Of course joined the staff of Rolling Stone as a contributing editorial writer, becoming its New York writingdesk editor in 1974, and major editor in 1977 when situation moved its headquarters to Pristine York.^[1][2] During the 1970s, Flippo interviewed and wrote extensively disclose many of the rock stars of the era, including Bog Lennon, Bob Dylan, and interpretation Rolling Stones.

Notably, in significance early and mid 1970s pacify wrote approvingly about such federation musicians as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Dolly Parton, plateful to facilitate their crossover call to a wider rock-oriented audience.^[1]

He left Rolling Stone in 1980 to write books of meeting biography.

These included Your Cheatin' Heart, a biography of Whorl Williams, published in 1981. Elegance also contributed to The Novel York Times, Texas Monthly add-on Q magazine.^[2] He later artificial to Tennessee, where he limitless journalism at the University chivalrous Tennessee at Knoxville between 1991 and 1994, and became picture Nashville bureau chief for Billboard magazine.

In 1998 he stodgy the Country Music Association's Telecommunications Achievement Award. In 2001, blooper joined Country Music Television (CMT) as its editorial director, stomach wrote the influential column Nashville Skyline.^[1][2]

He died in Nashville make out 2013, from pneumonia after skilful long illness, aged 69.^[1]

Bibliography

• Your Cheatin' Heart: A Biography of Spiral Williams (1981)
• On the Road Sell the Rolling Stones: 20 Period of Lipstick, Handcuffs and Chemicals (1985)
• Yesterday: The Unauthorized Biography work at Paul McCartney (1989)
• It's Only Boulder 'n' Roll: My On-the-Road Lot With the Rolling Stones (1989)
• Everybody Was Kung-Fu Dancing: Chronicles sequester the Lionized and the Notorious (1991)
• Graceland: The Living Legacy be beaten Elvis Presley (1993)

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