Night beat : a shadow history of rock & roll : collected writings /: a shadow history of rock & roll : collected writings. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Mikal Gilmore.
• Other Names: Gilmore, Mikal, 1951-
• Contents: Elvis Presley's leap for freedom -- Beatles then, Beatles now -- Subterranean: Bob Dylan's passages -- The Rolling Stones' journey into fear -- The legacy of Jim Morrison and the Doors -- Lou Reed: Darkness and love -- Brothers: The Allman Brothers Band -- Keith Jarrett's keys to the cosmos -- Life and death in the U.K.: The Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., Joy Division, New Order and the Jesus and Mary Chain -- The clash: Punk beginnings, punk endings -- Pink: Twenty years later -- Van Halen: The endless party -- Bruce Springsteen's America -- The problem of Michael Jackson -- Upstarts: Over & under the wall, & into the territory's center (Thoughts on politics, sex, violence, dancing, rap, hooligans, and censors) -- Clash of the titans: Heavy metal enters the 1990s -- Randy Newman: Songs of the promised land -- Al Green: Sensuality in the service of the Lord -- Jerry Lee Lewis: The Killer -- Miles Davis: the lion in the winter -- Feargal Sharkey: Songs of hearts and thieves -- Marianne Faithfull: Trouble in mind -- Stan Ridgeway's wrong people -- Sinead O'Connor's songs of experience -- David Baerwald's songs of secrets and sins -- Frank Sinatra: Singing in the dark -- Dark shadows: Hank Williams, Nick Drake, Phil Ochs -- Tim Hardin: Lost along the way -- Dennis Wilson: The lone surfer -- Marvin Gaye: Troubled soul -- No simple highway: The story of Jerry Garcia & the Grateful Dead -- Tupac Shakur: Easy target -- Ella Fitzgerald: Grace over pain -- Timothy Leary: The death of the most dangerous man -- Allen Ginsberg: For the fucking and the dying -- Kurt Cobain's road to nowhere: Walking The streets of Aberdeen.
• Publisher Details: London : Picador
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (480 pages)
• Subjects: 781.6609; Language; Rock music -- Reviews; Rock music -- History and criticism; Rock music; Aufsatzsammlung; Geschichte; Rockmusik; Literary Essays; USA; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Reviews
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781447217626; 1447217624
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