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name: Andrew Grant Jackson
about: ANDREW GRANT JACKSON is the author of 1973: Rock at the Crossroads, 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music, Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of the Beatles’ Solo Careers, Where’s Ringo? and Where’s Elvis?He has written for Rolling Stone, Slate, Yahoo!,PopMatters, and Please Kill Me. He directed and co-wrote the feature film The Discontents starring Perry King and Amy Madigan. He lives in Los Angeles.Jackson's websites:www.facebook.com/1973bookwww.facebook.com/1965bookwww.facebook.com/solobeatlebookhttps://www.facebook.com/whereselvisbookwww.1965book.comwww.solobeatles.comPraise for 1973: Rock at the Crossroads“Jackson's book paints a vivid portrait of the year through the lens of popular music ― mostly rock, but also country and ANDREW GRANT JACKSON is the author of 1973: Rock at the Crossroads, 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music, Still the Greatest: The Essential Songs of the Beatles’ Solo Careers, Where’s Ringo? and Where’s Elvis?He has written for Rolling Stone, Slate, Yahoo!,PopMatters, and Please Kill Me. He directed and co-wrote the feature film The Discontents starring Perry King and Amy Madigan. He lives in Los Angeles.Jackson's websites:www.facebook.com/1973bookwww.facebook.com/1965bookwww.facebook.com/solobeatlebookhttps://www.facebook.com/whereselvisbookwww.1965book.comwww.solobeatles.comPraise for 1973: Rock at the Crossroads“Jackson's book paints a vivid portrait of the year through the lens of popular music ― mostly rock, but also country and hip-hop … His analysis of sexuality and rock music is particularly interesting ... Jackson also proves to have a real talent for evoking the places that made 1973 such a consequential year in music.” ―NPR“A comprehensive account of the year of 1973 and its legendary music and momentous social change.” ―Rolling Stone“It’s the excellent―and frequently hilarious―saga of a moment when the whole sprawling pageant of pop music was one great big band on the run.” ―Rob Sheffield, author of Dreaming the BeatlesPraise for 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music“Jackson has a better ear than a lot of music writers, and one of the best parts of this book is his many casual citings of songs that echo others: Marvin Gaye’s first million-selling single, “I’ll Be Doggone,” builds on a riff used in the Searchers’ “Needles and Pins,” one also pinched by the Byrds for “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” … A lot of the best insights come from writers who show us the familiar through fresh eyes, as Jackson does when he returns us to a year when a lot of us were young and poor and not as happy as we thought we were, yet there was always a great song on the radio.”-- Washington Post ...more