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The record label hires Dennis, a professional manager, to handle problems with venues and promoters. William is jokingly called 'the enemy' by the band as he is a journalist, but all the same begins to lose his objectivity as he becomes integrated into their inner circle.

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Tensions between Russell and lead singer Jeff Bebe soon become evident and not helped at all by the band's first t-shirt, a full band shot that pictures Russell in full view while the rest of the band is in the shadows. William interviews the other band members, but Russell repeatedly puts him off. Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres hires William to write an article about Stillwater, based on his skills, and sends him on the road with the band. Despite behaving as stereotypical groupies, Penny Lane insists she and her friends are 'band aids', a term she invented to describe female fans that are there more for the music than for the rock stars themselves. Lead guitarist Russell Hammond takes a liking to him and his new acquaintance, veteran groupie Penny Lane, who has taken William under her wing. William is barred from backstage until the opening band Stillwater arrives and William flatters his way in.

Rock journalist Lester Bangs, impressed with William's writing, gives him a $35 assignment to review a Black Sabbath concert.

In 1973, William, now fifteen, influenced by Anita's secret cache of rock albums, aspires to be a rock journalist, writing freelance articles for underground papers in San Diego. Strong-willed Elaine's strict ban on rock music and her fear of pop culture have a negative effect on her children, finally driving William's 18-year-old sister Anita to move to San Francisco and become a flight attendant. William is actually eleven, having started the first grade at five years old, and skipping fifth grade. His life is further complicated after learning that his widowed college-professor mother Elaine has falsely led him to believe he is thirteen years old. In San Diego 1969, child prodigy William Miller struggles to fit in. A stage musical adaptation of the film is set to open on Broadway in September 2022.

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In a Hollywood Reporter 2014 list voted on by 'studio chiefs, Oscar winners and TV royalty', Almost Famous was ranked the 71st greatest film of all time. In a 2016 international poll conducted by BBC, Almost Famous was ranked the 79th greatest film since 2000. It also won two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (Hudson). Roger Ebert hailed it the best film of the year as well as the ninth-best film of the 2000s. It was also awarded the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The film received widespread acclaim from critics and received four Academy Award nominations, including a win for Best Original Screenplay.

The film is semi-autobiographical, as Crowe himself was a teenage writer for Rolling Stone. It tells the story of a teenage journalist writing for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s, his touring with the fictitious rock band Stillwater, and his efforts to get his first cover story published. Almost Famous is a 2000 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, and starring Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson and Patrick Fugit.