The Sound and the Fury - 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism: A Rock's Backpages Reader

THE SOUND AND THE FURY 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 ... Al Aronowitz documenting The Beatles'' arrival in America Glenn O''Brien dishing the dirt with Madonna Nick Hornby reappraising pop deities 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 Grand Funk Railroad Plus Greil Marcus on The Band, Mary Harron on Warhol, Vivien Goldman at the Wigan Casino, John Mendelssohn in South Central LA ... and many others.>

Product details

• Authors: Barney Hoskyns
• Assisted by: Barney Hoskyns (Editor), Hoskyns Barney (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2003
• EAN: 9780747563136
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-6313-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: rock's back pages; rock's back pages
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Rock, Diaries, letters & journals, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, Pop Music, Popular Music, Diaries, letters and journals