- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing; New edition edition (10 July 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1900924080
- ISBN-13: 978-1900924085
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 738,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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BBC's Music for the Millennium, December 1999
"One of the twenty greatest music books of all time."
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First published in 1988, this is the definitive study of the extravagant, if sombre, association between drugs and popular music. Each development in music has brought with it a new fashion in drugs, though tragically, the heroes of one are so frequently the victims of the other. Shapiro tells in detail the stories of the most famous - Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, Sid Vicious - and examines the disturbingly collusive relationship between two billion-dollar industries.This edition is fully revised and includes over 100 pages of new material that covers the rise of Ecstasy and dance music; the links between rap music and "crack" cocaine, and the return of the wasted junky rock star that came with the Seattle grunge scene. Featured artists in these new sections include Shaun Ryder, Tupac Shakur and Kurt Cobain.Harry Shapiro has worked in the drugs field since 1979. He is also the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Alexis Korner, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.
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Mr Shapiro works for the Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence in London and writes biogs of musicians, including Clapton, Hendrix and the great Alexis Korner. Beginning with a brief discussion of Western drug-taking before drugs were made illegal in America by the Harrison Act of 1914, this seminal study of the realtionship between music(ians) and drugs really gets into its stride with the twin rise of jazz and marijuana in the 1920s. Each development in pop music has brought with it a new fashion in drugs; these trends are catalogued and related to sociological factors such as race, class and society's attitude toward musicians. The 1987 original begins to look dated; I'm looking forward to the new edition...
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I loved this book also, and will read it again and again, the temptations of rock/pop singers and how they dealt with drugs.
Cathy Cave
Cathy Cave
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An excellent work by Harry Shapiro. Everyone working in - or thinking of working in - the music/entertainment industry should read this.
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