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| From | "Mark Smith" <markmsmith@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Rock/pop books |
| Date | Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:30:24 +0000 |
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Revolution In The Head is an amazing book, Ian MacDonald has a collection of
his magazine pieces called The People's Music that is also very good
although I find myself disagreeing with a lot of his opinions. He basically
believed that there was nothing new worth bothering with after about 1970.
However I always enjoyed his reviews in Uncut magazine. I almost always
disagreed with what he wrote but I was just pleased that he was a music
writer who could actually elicit some kind of reaction from me, good or bad.
His 2 stars out of 5 review of The Zombies box set particularly stuck in my
craw.
Johnny Rogan's books are worth keeping an eye out for although they may not
all be in print. The Severed Alliance about The Smiths is excellent
(Morrissey wished that Rogan would die in a motorway pile up so he must have
been doing something right). He also has good books on The Kinks, 60's rock
managers and an exhaustive tome on The Byrds amongst others.
Mark
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