Frank Moriarty

Frank Moriarty is a writer and guitarist. The award-winning author of fifteen nonfiction books, he also has written for publications on a variety of topics ranging from motorsports development programs and NASA spaceflight to R&B and rock 'n' roll. In the Jimi Hendrix realm, Frank wrote the book Bold as Love: The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MetroBooks, 1996) with a foreword by Experience bassist Noel Redding. He has also contributed to the acclaimed Eyewitness: Jimi Hendrix reference book series...See more

Frank Moriarty is a writer and guitarist. The award-winning author of fifteen nonfiction books, he also has written for publications on a variety of topics ranging from motorsports development programs and NASA spaceflight to R&B and rock 'n' roll. In the Jimi Hendrix realm, Frank wrote the book Bold as Love: The Jimi Hendrix Experience (MetroBooks, 1996) with a foreword by Experience bassist Noel Redding. He has also contributed to the acclaimed Eyewitness: Jimi Hendrix reference book series and provided feature articles to the Hendrix family periodical Experience Hendrix as well as the magazines Jimpress and UniVibes: The International Jimi Hendrix Magazine. Frank attended Jimi Hendrix performances in 1969 and 1970.Frank has been a guitarist for more than four decades. His band Informed Sources performed with groundbreaking US punk bands including Black Flag, X, the Replacements, Flipper, Dead Kennedys, and Bad Brains throughout the early 1980s. His career in music continued in later bands including Bunnydrums and Third Stone Invasion as a label-mate with artists including John Entwistle of The Who and Billy Squier.Frank's writing career began in the early 1970s during his teenage years. In the 1980s he began a decade-long stint as weekly rock music columnist for Philadelphia City Paper, then became associated with Philadelphia Weekly.Frank has met or interviewed musicians ranging from David Bowie and Pete Townshend to Joe Strummer and Patti Smith.Friends to canines and adopters of an ever-growing string of rescue dogs saved from homelessness, Frank and his wife Leigh Anne reside in New Jersey. See less