Stephen Davis

Stephen Davis (1947-) Read more

Stephen Davis was born in New York City in 1947 and educated in Philadelphia and Boston.

October of 1969 was an defining moment in Stephen's early life - the maverick Jack Kerouac had died of alcoholism and was being buried near Stephen in Massachusetts. Still at university and enthralled by the 'Rolling Stone' newspaper he was asked to cover the funeral with his friend and photographer Peter Simon. At Kerouac's wake (in Lowell) were the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jimmy Breslin all from the 'New York Daily News'...

>"So I wrote all this up and it was my first story in Rolling Stone, for 50 dollars and I went out and bought a big block of hashish and that´s the beginning of my career".

Continuing with his articles and reviews for 'Rolling Stone' he also began writing for 'The Cambridge Phoenix' in 1970, taking special interest in music. Just two years later he joined the Rolling Stone's staff as an associate editor and took the opportunity to travel to Morocco for the first time (1973), and even lead an expedition to record tribal music in the Djebela mountains, sponsored by The National Geographic Society (1974).

By the mid-1970's Stephen's free-lance writing and journalism appeared in the New York Time, The Boston Globe, and many national magazines, enticing readers into new musical worlds with stories like...