Description

Several writers have secured a place as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career currently talking about rock and roll. Today, for the very first time, this collection gathers his social various musings, interviews, opinions, and critique. You start with Elvis and the birth of rock and roll, Gilmore traces the improvements in The Usa as its youth taken care of immediately the post-war political and economic environment. He learns in the words of Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison the sounds of fervor and unrest, and charts the fall and rise of punk in essays on Lou Reed, The Sex Pistols, and The Clash.