Maggie Foley quotes from Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)

Maggie Foley

"A Season in Hell", a spiritual and confessional autobiography. Arthur Rimbaud was a genius, his writings were a quest. A search for perfection, an attempt to find total freedom. At the age of nineteen, Arthur Rimbaud commited suicide, not of the flesh, but of the mind and the soul. It means he never wrote another word, and disappeared off the face of the earth. He was not seen nor heard from again for nearly twenty years, until he reappeared in a hospital within Marseille on his deathbed.

Maggie Foley

Frank, how much influence did Rimbaud have on Eddie?

Frank Ridgeway

Looking for a ghost?

Maggie Foley

Maybe.

Frank Ridgeway

You don't really think Eddie's still alive, do you?

Maggie Foley

I guess not. But what about the coincindence of "Season in Hell"? Frank what happened to those tapes?

Frank Ridgeway

Hey, look, it didn't work. The record company hated it, they never released the album.

Maggie Foley

Frank, I want to get a hold of those tapes and play them on my show. Let's let them be heard, and let the people decide whether their any good.

Frank Ridgeway

I don't know where they are. Honest, we'd like to find them as much as you would.

Maggie Foley

The innocence of the 50s was over and so was rock and roll as we knew it. We were entering a new age, an age of confusion, an age of passion, of commitment. Eddie Wilson saw it coming. "Season in Hell" is the total innovation for its time. It was a signal a greatness yet to come. Eddie Wilson was a step ahead of us and I don't think we've caught up with him yet. Eddie's been dead for almost 18 years, but his music is as alive today as the day he recorded it. For me and for everyone who listens to music, Eddie Wilson lives and always will.