A Rock's Backpages Reader.
A bumper collection of the very best rock writing. This book gathers some of the best and most entertaining rock writing of the last forty years, coming at rock and roll from several different angles and spanning four decades of Good, Bad and Ugly.
Among the pieces you will find:
- Al Aronowitz documenting the Beatles' arrival in America
- Glenn O'Brien dishing the dirt with Madonna
- Nick Hornby reappraising ABBA
- Caroline Coon witnessing the birth of punk
- Will Self sparring with Morrissey
- Jon Savage entering the fractured mind of Kurt Cobain
- Lenny Kaye riding the Grand Funk Railroad
Plus Greil Marcus on The Band, Mary Harron on Andy Warhol, John Mendelssohn in South Central La . . . and many others.
