Ergebnis für "Greil Marcus" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

A fan from the moment the Doors’ first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock ’n’ roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four of the Doors’ songs in an hour - every hour.

Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan’s story through seven of his most transformative songs. This is not only a deeply felt telling of the life and times of Bob Dylan, but a rich history of American folk songs and the new life they were given as Dylan sat down to write his own.

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs—the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s—edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus.

Edición ampliada y revisada de la historia de la canción de Bob Dylan, elegida por la revista Rolling Stone como la canción más importante de la historia del rock. Greil Marcus ha escrito la biografía de una canción. Grabada el 16 de junio de 1965, "Like a Rolling Stone" se incorporó inmediatamente a la iconografía de su época, y con tanta fuerza que varias décadas después sigue evadiendo los zarpazos del tiempo.