Tuesday, September 22 2009
By the Time We Got to Woodstock: The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Revolution of 1969
Pollock sees Woodstock as an index to where the culture had already been going, and where, given enormous social, political and economic forces at work in America, it was already destined to go.
Thursday, May 28 2009
Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Alice Cooper by Dale Sherman
Neither the book’s essential ugliness nor its sloppy text slowed me down; Pearson’s knowledge of Alice Cooper’s career is encyclopedic, the revelations and anecdotes compelling.
Friday, August 22 2008
Rock ‘n’ Roll Babylon: 50 Years of Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Whether it's an about-face, religious conversion denouncing former indulgences or a sincere effort to remain faithful or get clean, there are a lot of rockers quick to blame all of their sins on rock 'n' roll.
