Rock 'n' roll
Bob Brunning
Highlights the influence of some well-known personalities in the early history of rock music, including Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, and Little Richard.
Read Time: ~5.5 hr
Let it blurt
by Jim DeRogatis (2001)
About this book
"Let It Blurt is the biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82) - the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electric, and more alive, in the course of which he charted and defined the aesthetics of heavy metal and punk. He was treated as a peer by such brash visionaries as Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Captain Beef-heart, The Clash, Debbie Harry, and other luminaries."--BOOK JACKET.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreLet it blurt Lead Character
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