#50 - Mikel Jollett on HOLLYWOOD PARK - a podcast by Books on Pod

The Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett chats with Trey Elling about HOLLYWOOD PARK: A MEMOIR, including:

• Escaping a cult he'd spent the first five years of his life in (01:03).


• Using different literary voices from childhood to adulthood (08:48).


• An introduction to his dad (11:21).


• The music that resonated with him as a kid (30:30).


• A chat with dad at Hollywood Park that helped a teenaged Mikel get it together (40:17).


• Receiving invaluable advice from The Cure's Robert Smith about "normal" (49:09).


• The last of many life-changing conversations between father and son (52:43).

And at the end of the interview, we play the title track off of the corresponding album to the book, also called HOLLYWOOD PARK.

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