New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2017. -. -. Hardback. "She was like a storm." --Leonard Cohen Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond...
Cambridge, Mass., United States: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2009. Paperback. Greil Marcus, author of "Mystery Train", widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in...
Plume Books, 2015. -. English Edition. Revised Edition. 6th Revised ed. Paperback. In 1975, Greil Marcus's Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock 'n' roll and continues to be sought out today by music fans and anyone interested in pop culture. Looking at recordings by six key artists--Robert...
Bloomington, IN, United States: Indiana University Press, 2006. -. -. Paperback. Though The Velvet Underground existed for no more than three years with its original lineup, it is considered to be not just the "ultimate New York band" but one of the most influential rock groups ever. Among its devotees...
-: Scribner Book Company, 2011. -. -. Paperback. Now in paperback, the definitive anthology from a writer who "set the standard for newspaper pop-music criticism" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the New York Times' first chief pop music critic and Rolling Stone contributor Robert Palmer. Robert Palmer's extraordinary knowledge and boundless love...
London, United Kingdom: Profile Books Ltd, 2016. -. Paperback. What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they'd been looking for all along? These are the questions...
Glasshoughton, Yorks, United Kingdom: Route Publishing, 2016. -. -. Paperback. The first insider's account of life inside The Fall, Steve Hanley's story unfolds like a novel; from 1979 when he joined his schoolmates Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon in The Fall, he puts us right in the heart of the...
