Letter: Sam Shepard's ambition was to be a rock star
In 1967 Sam Shepard entrusted his Melodrama Play, starting in New York and touring Europe, to the La MaMa theatre company and the director Tom O'Horgan " and no wonder. Apart from his writing, Sam's ambition was to be a rock star in the mould of Bob Dylan and Lou Reed. Tom was not only a visionary theatre director but an award-winning composer and he jumped at the chance to shape Sam's tale of threat and treachery in…
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