Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Bruce Springsteen took a few moments at a concert last weekend to pay tribute to the Charles R. Cross, the late Seattle-based music journalist and author.
As KIRO Newsradio Resident Historian Feliks Banel explained, Cross, who died unexpectedly Aug. 9 at the age of 67, was “known globally for definitive volumes about musical icons birthed in the Northwest: Jimi Hendrix, Heart and Nirvana.” He also edited the Seattle-based music magazine “The Rocket,” an old printed paper that chronicled the “rapidly towering music scene in the boomtown glory years of the 1980s and 1990s.”
Banel went on to note that Cross also created “Backstreets,” a so-called “fan-zine” devoted to Springsteen “that soared above other publications in that category with its professional quality and stratospheric production values.”…