Pop, Rock

For ‘Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, & Rock Fiction, ‘ I fictionalized the Rock World. I also interviewed Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, etc. for ‘Super Stage Legend Rockers.’ I hope you enjoy this look …

Contributions by Ignatius Calabria, H. Zahra Caldwell, Brian Jude de Lima, Sabatino Di Bernardo, William Fulton, Antonio Garfias, Judson L. Jeffries, Tony Kiene, Molly Reinhoudt, Fred Shaheen, and Ka …

Skip Spence was a soldier, a rock star, a folkie, an innovator, an addict, a cult phenomenon and a ward of the state. The cast of characters in his story include some of the biggest stars in music: J …

‘I’m no stranger to failure, and I’m aware it can arrive at any minute—as it often has. You have to keep things close to your chest and be aware of what’s really important: the work, not everything a …

‘I’ve never seen a Bob Dylan smile, except in photos or on the stage. Not the real thing.’ Britta Lee Shain was a friend of Bob Dylan’s until he asked her to join him on the road in the mid 1980s, at …

Combining literature, social history, and personal experience, author Robert J. Campbell traces the birth, downfall, and legacy of the innovative, playful, and spontaneous counterculture launched in …

‘Brilliant; the best book I have ever read about the recording industry; a classic.’–Larry King On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a …

Tommy , Trauma, and Postwar Youth Culture traces the development of one of rock music’s central masterpieces and its relation to the social-cultural history of the era. Composer and guitarist Pete To …

Widely hailed as a genius, Arthur Lee was a character every bit as colorful and unique as his music. In 1966, he was Prince of the Sunset Strip, busy with his pioneering racially-mixed band Love, and …