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Informationen zum Autor Greil Marcus was born in San Francisco in 1945. He is the author of Mystery Train , Invisible Republic , Lipstick Traces, Double Trouble and Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 and the editor of Lester Bangs's Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung . In 1998 he curated the exhibition '1948' at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He writes the Real Life Rock Top 10 column for The Believer and teaches at the New School in New York . He was described by John Rockwell in the New York Times as 'a writer of rare perception and a genuinely innovative thinker'. Greil Marcus lives in California. Klappentext Sardonic, bitter, threatening, compassionate, gleeful, and most of all loud, 'Like a Rolling Stone' is much more than a song. Six minutes and six seconds in length, it was released by Dylan despite the received wisdom of the day as to what constituted a single. Greil Marcus' book reconstructs the context in which the song first appeared, in terms of Dylan's own career (his controversial transformation from folk singer into rock 'n' roll singer) and the world at large (Vietnam and the counter-culture of the time). An analysis and critique of an artist at the height of his creative powers, it affords a unique insight into the mistakes and inspirations that come together only in the very highest cultural moments. Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus: 'Marcus seems to understand Dylan and the song intuitively. His ideas burn with a fierce intelligence and the song takes on a new life in that crucible.' (Hanif Kureishi) Zusammenfassung In 1965, one song defined a generation caught the questing spirit of the era and changed the rules of the possible in popular music for all time. This book captures the heady atmosphere of the recording studio in 1965 as witnessed by many clustered around the mercurial genius from Minnesota....
