![]() ![]() Looking back on the making of his debut album, Ratso says, “Everything about this project was fun. He recently gave a lengthy interview to Martin Scorsese for his forthcoming documentary The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.Īnd now, the man who seems to be everywhere and nowhere has also just released his first album, Stubborn Heart. ![]() How can a man who has worked with Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed and John Cale be relatively unknown? And just what hasn’t Larry “Ratso” Sloman done in his career, which spans over four decades? He’s ghost-written the best-selling memoirs of Howard Stern, Mike Tyson and Anthony Kiedis co-wrote a biography of Houdini and a book on the history of marijuana. Ratso spoke with PKM’s Todd McGovern about his eventful life. He may be the only songwriter on the planet influenced by Leonard Cohen, Tuli Kupferberg and Wild Man Fischer. ![]() Now, at age 70, with the release of his first album, Stubbon Heart, his ambition is to be the “Jewish Susan Boyle”. The resume of Larry “Ratso” Sloman is epic: editor of National Lampoon, collaborator with John Cale and Lou Reed, a member of Bob Dylan’s traveling carnival known as the Rolling Thunder Revue, ghostwriter for Howard Stern, Mike Tyson, Anthony Kiedis and Peter Criss, writer for film and TV, and songwriter. ![]()
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