and breaking bands. Regular columns and features included interviews, reviews, song histories, lyrical dissections, interviews on songwriting, roadie tales courtesy of Dinky Dawson, new classics, music and politics, crate diggers, the weakest cut, memoir and fiction pieces, in-house video sessions and interviews, and more. Very Seventies Peter Knobler and Greg Mitchell edited the book Very Seventies: A Cultural History of the 1970s from the Pages of Crawdaddy, published in 1995. In popular culture In the 1979 movie Rock 'n' Roll High School, the character Riff Randell (P. J. Soles) is seen reading an issue. The Simpsons episode "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" (season 22, episode 16; airdate March 13, 2011) features a scene with Homer in the attic reminiscing to Bart about the 1970s, while sitting amongst stacks of old Crawdaddy magazines. The magazine has been also referenced by Mystery Science Theater 3000, such as in the episode "The Skydivers" (in a gag about a reporter "covering the event" for Crawdaddy, although the movie predates the founding of the magazine) and the episode "The Incredible Melting Man" (in a gag about a very 1970s woman having a collection of back issues). References Further reading Knobler, Peter; Mitchell, Greg, Very Seventies: A Cultural History of the 1970s from the Pages of Crawdaddy Williams, Paul, The Crawdaddy! book : writings (and images) from the magazine of rock, Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard Corp., 2002. External links Peter Knobler on Crawdaddy Crawdaddy home page at Pastemagazine.com Interview with Paul Williams at rockcritics.com Paul Williams, Peter Knobler: Personal history of Crawdaddy Very Seventies: A Cultural History of the 1970s from the Pages of Crawdaddy Paul Williams website Magazines established in 1966 Magazines disestablished in 1979 Defunct magazines published in the United States Online magazines with defunct print editions Online music magazines published in the United States Magazines published in New York City Magazines published in Pennsylvania Swarthmore College Magazines published in Boston