New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation With Blondie, Iggy Pop, and Others 1974-1981 - Brossura

Valentine, Gary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 028306367X ISBN 13: 9780283063671

Casa editrice: Macmillan Pub Ltd, 2002

Riassunto

By 1970, the hippie dream of the 60s was dead—the soundtrack to the revolution had become a multimillion-dollar industry. But four years later, emerging from the rubble of rock, was a music whose hard edge matched the lifestyle of its home turf—New York’s East Village. Punk’s initiators—Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine, and Patti Smith—had one foot in 19th-century French symbolist poetry and the other in the raw sound of predecessors like the Velvet Underground. Now, in New York Rocker, Gary Valentine offers an inside account of this little-documented era. He talks about the luminaries—like Debbie Harry, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Devo, and the New York Dolls—and the gigs at CBGBs hitting the news as Warhol and his glittering crew descended.

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Descrizione del libro

An insider's account of the birth of punk.

L'autore

Gary Lachman, as Gary Valentine, was a founder member of Blondie and wrote the group's early hits. In 2006 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also the author of Turn Off Your Mind, a history of the occult counterculture of the 60s.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Macmillan Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 028306367X
• ISBN 13: 9780283063671
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile