Auteur: Greil Marcus

'Van Morrison, ' says Greil Marcus, 'remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.' When Astral Weeks was released in 1968, it was …

His foremost interpreter revisits more than forty years of listening to Dylan – weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in …

A cult classic in a new edition. This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a …

Greil Marcus's study of American rock and roll is universally acclaimed as the benchmark work of modern rock criticism. Using a handful of artists – a brace of bluesmen, The Band, Sly Stone, …

A fan from the moment the Doors' first album arrived, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. …

Re-release of the first book ever published in America about the legendary Motown Record Company, with a new foreword by legendary music journalist Greil Marcus! In January 1959 Berry Gordy bor …

Der große Musikkritiker Greil Marcus über Van Morrison Kein Album hat Greil Marcus in seinem Leben öfter gehört als Van Morrisons Meisterwerk »Astral Weeks« aus dem Jahr 1968. Kein Album hat ihn …

Gli scritti del più grande rock writer di tutti i tempi (un vero guru) su Bob Dylan. Prefazione: Riccardo Bertoncelli Premessa: Carlo Feltrinelli Attraverso questi scritti di Greil Marcus su Bob Dyla …

For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of …

For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of …

From the author of The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs comes his “Basement Tapes”: the complete “Real Life Rock Top 10” columns For nearly thirty years, …

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A Beat-era novel of heroin addiction in 1950s New York City that was called “a treasure” by Ken Kesey.   This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the …

 »Stanley Booth »s book is the only one I can read and say, ‘Yeah, That »s how it was »’ KEITH RICHARDS »An epic, behind-the-scenes record of life with the greatest rock band in the world » Observer …

Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock ‘n’ roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraftwerk, Lou Reed. As a rock critic, he had an eagle-eye for …

The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Unlike previous versions of rock …

"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood, " film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer’s terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American …

La dramática y truculenta vida de Jerry Lee Lewis es una de las más legendarias de la historia de la música popular norteamericana. Considerada una de las mejores biografías jamás escritas, ‘Fuego …

Durante toda su vida, Greil Marcus, uno de los mejores pensadores vivos de la cultura popular, ha escuchado a The Doors, la banda liderada por el carismático y oscuro Jim Morrison, que, en tan solo …

Panegírico es un artefacto bicéfalo, un mosaico que guarda un enigma. En su Tomo primero (1989) encontramos unas memorias escritas a modo de autorretrato a la deriva y sin concesiones a lo que el …

It was the twang heard ’round the world: Rockabilly was born out of country, bluegrass, jazz, and the blues in the 1950s, becoming rock ’n’ roll and ruling the world. Here’s the story of Elvis Pres …

Lester Bangs ist ‘die’ große Rock-Kritiker-Legende in Amerika. Geboren 1948, arbeitete er ab 1971 fünf Jahre lang beim Rockmagazin Creem und beeinflusste mit seinem neuen subjektiven Stil eine ganze …

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Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 tour across …

Greil Marcus verfolgt Bob Dylans Werk mit der Intensität eines Fans und der Hartnäckigkeit eines Detektivs – von Dylans Anfängen bis heute. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch reichen von Artikeln im …

Der Klassiker der Kulturgeschichte erstmal asl E-book, mit komplett überarbeiteter und neu kommentierter Bibliografie und Diskografie Greil Marcus begann seine Arbeit an »Lipstick Traces« aus …

Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969 tour across …

Addicted to Noise collects the best interviews, profiles, and essays Michael Goldberg has written during his forty-plus years as a journalist. From combative interviews with Frank Zappa and Tom Waits …

‘De longe o melhor livro sobre os Stones já escrito. O relato mais convincente da vida do lado de dentro do monstro criado pela revolução do rock dos anos 1960.’ – Richard Williams, The Guardian …

"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood, " film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer’s terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American …

The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological …

Qual a importância de uma nova biografia sobre um dos artistas mais conhecidos e icônicos das últimas décadas? Como ir além dos lugares-comuns e de tudo o que já se sabe sobre o músico que venceu …