Reviews
Sunday, October 2 2011
Oh! You Pretty Things: 'Children of the Revolution: The Glam Rock Story 1970-75'
Dave Thompson (Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell: The Dangerous Glitter of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed) knows his glitter, and he leaves no rhinestone unturned, here.
Thursday, August 4 2011
Poet, Punk and Shaman: 'Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story'
If you gave poet and mystic William Blake access to some electric guitars, the result would have sounded a lot like Patti Smith. Dave Thompson tells this story with a special focus on the height of her career in the '70s.
Friday, January 8 2010
Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell: The Dangerous Glitter of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed
However unbalanced they may have seemed from time to time, these artists' interactions were definitely mutual exchanges.
Sunday, July 5 2009
London's Burning by Dave Thompson
Thompson writes of that singular year when punk when was really fresh, and only a select few, himself included, were on the scene when it was conceived.
Tuesday, January 27 2009
I Hate New Music by Dave Thompson
This work is offered as a kind of spiritual call to arms, a bid to reclaim rock music from the corporate takeover that's made the rock genre a shadow of its former swaggering self.
