Bowie: A Biography – Book Review
From Davy to David. From Jones to Bowie. Mark Spitz's Bowie: A
Biography begins in 2005 at CMJ in New York City. CMJ is an annual
gathering that illuminates the latest...
Neil Young | Long May You Run: The Illustrated History – Book Review
Of the countless books and diatribes written about Neil Young, Neil
Young ~ Long May You Run: The Illustrated History is about as a complete
and up-to-date as you could ask...
Jerry Weintraub | When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead – Book Review
Did you know that former rock manager, film producer and chairman and CEO
of United Artists Jerry Weintraub went to Leonid Brezhnev's funeral at the Kremlin
and had better seats than...
A Dream Goes On Forever The Continuing Story Of Todd Rundgren Vol. 2 The...
Yeah, it's a long title, but then again if you want to know everything you'll ever need to know about Todd Rundgren and his band Utopia, A Dream Goes...
Neil Diamond Is Forever: The Illustrated History Of The Man And His Music –...
Did you know that “Neil Diamond” is Neil Diamond’s real
name? I had no idea. In fact, there are a whole bunch of facts about this legendary
singer/songwriter I didn’t know....
Joey Kramer | Hit Hard: A Story Of Hitting Rock Bottom At The Top...
For me, Aerosmith has always been Joey Kramer, Brad Whitford and Tom Hamilton. I know Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are the American equivalent of Mick Jagger and Keith...
Backstage Passes And Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs Of A Rock ‘N’ Roll Survivor + Bowie,...
If you know the names Al Kooper and Tony Visconti then you know why I am reviewing
these bios together. Kooper was the organist on Bob Dylan’s “Like
Rolling Stone”; a...
Eye Mind: The Saga Of Roky Erickson & The 13th Floor Elevators, The Pioneers...
From San Francisco to London, the youth of the 1960s were turning on, tuning in and dropping out like flies on a mudslide. A cultural upheaval set the establishment...
Brian Jones: Straight From the Heart, The Rolling Stones Murder – Book Review
With a book title like Brian Jones: Straight From the Heart, The Rolling Stones Murder, you can bet a 337-page soft cover book presents some ‘facts’ that are far...
Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story Of Rock & Roll’s Legendary Neighborhood – Book Review
The last time I was in the popular music section of the local Barnes &
Noble, I took stock in the number of tomes written about rock and roll. For
one,...
