12 Great Books About Rock

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	"The Old Testament.  This leaves out a lot of Lester's enthusiasms (e.g.  Black Sabbath) but nobody else was ever so funny and passionate about bad music"

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	"The only Greil Marcus you'll ever need, unless you want to read one guy writing the same book about Dylan four or five times.  Important, but not as much as the above"

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	"Fantastically rude, irreverent, unsentimental and creative.  More readable by far than his much-touted 'Aesthetics of Rock'"

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	"THE best book about hard rock, because it's actually about the music.  Homophobic and weirdly redneck, but he's listened to everything and knows his stuff"

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	"Well-researched and sober accounts of some of the best bands in rock"

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	"Essential counterweight to the foregoing; a manic fan's-eye-view of many of the same bands.   A scary labour of love"

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	"The insanity that was hardcore from one of its dark princes; Rollins' own account of his journey into the maelstrom.  Brilliant photos too"

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	"Same genre, totally different experience.  Marvel as Hunter negotiates between VD-riddled groupies and sleazy hangers-on, bumping into Zappa and Bowie along the way"

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	"Yeah, it's cleaned up, but wouldn't you want to have the Gospel according to Bigger-than-Jesus?"

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	"Still the finest book on Hendrix, although unlike the Fabs the competition isn't very impressive.  Superbly written and intelligent"

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	"Fascinating, superbly researached and MacDonald writes like a dream, although I could do without his Decline-of-the-West riffs"

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	"Interesting counter-argument by American critic, with the typical US bias against the Sgt Pepper-era stuff.  Unusual, imaginative and well-argued"

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	"Predictable Rolling Stone corporate hack in authorship of fascinatingly demented study of uber-trash classic fury"