John Mendelsohn: Superstardom is my Destiny
John Mendelssohn, Rolling Stone, 13 May 1971
EVEN AT 15, when I abandoned my childhood dreams of one day becoming the slugging second-baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers, I knew somehow that neither driving a rig, putting out fires, nor galloping about shrieking "yay-ha" at long-horned steers, glamorous as these callings may be, would please me half so well as being the rock and roll superstar I'm about to become.
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