Fast Times at Ridgemont High - A True Story

Grateful Acknowledgments

David Obst, Irving Azoff, Art Linson, Neal Preston, Bob Bookman, Joel Bernstein, Fred Hills, Danny Bramson, Ron Bernstein, Kathy DeRouville, Erica Spellman, Jackie Snyder, Cindy Crowe, Alan Hergott, David Rensin, Virginia Johnstone, Tom Pollock, Bill Maguire, Leslie Ellen, Louise Goffin, Judy Boasberg, George Cossolias, Judd Klinger, Susan Blond, The Thugs, Debbie Gold, Richard C. Woods, Karla Bonoff, Harold Schmidt, Daniel Kortchmar, Shaun Daniel, Thom Mount, Susan Bolotin, Abigale Haness, John Dodds, Kevin McCormick, Lori Zech, David Bernstein, Barry Steinman, Jann S. Wenner, Riley Kathryn Ellis, Martha Cochrane, and Wendy Sherman.

CAMERON

CROWE

lives in Los Angeles and is a free-lance writer, contributing to

Rolling Stone, Playboy, and

The Los Angeles Times

Copyright©

1981 by Cameron Crowe

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Crowe, Cameron, date.

Fast times at Ridgemont High.

1. Title.

PS3553.R589S8 813’.54 81-8945

ISBN: 0-671-25290-0

0-671-25291-7 pbk.

An excerpt from the lyrics of “Watching the Detectives,” by Elvis Costello, copyright © 1980 Plangent Visions Music, Inc., is used by permission of Warner Bros. Music. All rights reserved.

An excerpt from the lyrics of “Landslide,” by Stevie Nicks, copyright © 1975, is used by permission of Fleetwood Mac Music/Welsh Witch Music. All rights reserved.