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Christian John's Substack

Reflections on a life in music.

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Carly Simon & Christian John

“Thank you for all the years of understanding each other,” Carly Simon wrote in my copy of Boys in the Trees. We were sitting together on a couch, just the two of us perched high above the East River. It was a cool evening in the fall of 2016 and I’d just finished an interview with Carly about her memoir. Her sister Joanna (“Joey”) invited me to conduct the interview at her home. I arrived with a…

CJW on Fashion & Music

Vogue and The Wall Street Journal both applauded What the Band Wore: Fashion & Music, my first full-length collaboration with Alice Harris.

McCartney & Me

When I met Paul McCartney for the first time, I handed him sunflowers.

"Girl Groups" and CJW

Motown royalty graced the stage when I interviewed Martha Reeves at the Apollo Theater in November 2019.

Music Video Boy: 1986

MTV ruled the way I experienced music in 1986.

How I Started Writing

Tina Turner introduced me to the possibility of writing about music.

Why I Write

“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” opened my world at two years old.