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Nelson George: The Death Of Rhythm & Blues (Pantheon, 256 pages, $18.95 hardcover)
Book Review by Mark Dery, LA Weekly, 28 July 1988
SOLD BROTHERS ...
Book Review by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, October 1990
THE BRITISH have always tried to claim Hendrix as their own. This argument falls apart right away not only because he was an American, but ...
Book Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 1998
THESE TWO volumes comprise anthologies of journalism, contemporary and retrospective, about two great black musicians of the 20th century whose brilliance was not usually matched ...
Craig Werner: A Change Is Gonna Come – Music, Race & the Soul Of America
Book Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, October 2000
Potent history of black American music, from Gospel-fuelled Civil Rights-era freedom marches, through Motown, Monterey, The Million Man March and much, much more. ...
Jimi Hendrix: Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience by Greg Tate (Lawrence Hill)
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, July 2003
Erudite, eclectic and pungently demotic polemic on Hendrix's centrality in the 20th century African-American cultural pantheon. ...
Hugh Masekela and D. Michael Cheers: Still Grazing – The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela
Book Review by Eric Weisbard, The New York Times Book Review, 13 June 2004
IN THE MID-1950s, as Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and all the rest were leading a rock 'n' roll revolution across America, Hugh Masekela found himself ...
Book Review by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 14 May 2006
THIS PROTEIN-PACKED memoir entwines a number of stories that reach well beyond the subtitle's modest brief. At one level it's a boy's own adventure. Joe ...
Book Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Washington Post, 20 August 2006
The early years of a reggae superstar who gained worldwide renown. ...
Nick Kent, Rolling Stones, The, Sex Pistols, The: Nick Kent: Apathy for the Devil – A 1970s Memoir
Book Review by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, 21 February 2010
AS AN EYEWITNESS account of the dangerous excesses of the 1970s rock scene, Apathy for the Devil is in a compulsively readable class of its ...
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 23 May 2015
WHEN RICHARD GOLDSTEIN got married, Murray "the K" Kaufman – the famous New York disc jockey who'd anointed himself "the Fifth Beatle" in 1964 – ...
Book Review by Larry Jaffee, Women Across Frontiers, 17 November 2015
MY FIRST REVELATORY encounter with Patti Smith was listening on the radio in the fall of 1975 around the time of the release of her ...
Band, The, Robbie Robertson: Robbie Robertson: Testimony
Book Review by Clinton Heylin, The Spectator, 21 January 2017
THE RECENT SPATE of rock memoirs has proved one of the less rewarding sub-genres in the post-digital Gutenberg galaxy. Obeying few rules of a good ...
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