num_pages: 448
description: "The Sound and the Fury" gathers some of the best and most entertaining rock writing of the last forty years, coming at rock and roll from several different angles and spanning four decades of Good, Bad and Ugly. Among the pieces Al Aronowitz documenting The Beatles' arrival in America; Glenn O'Brien dishing the dirt with Madonna; Nick Hornby reappraising pop deities Abba; Caroline Coon witnessing the birth of punk; Will Self sparring with Morrissey; Jon Savage entering the fractured mind of Kurt Cobain; Lenny Kaye riding Grand Funk Railroad Plus Greil Marcus on The Band, Mary Harron on Warhol, Vivien Goldman at the Wigan Casino, John Mendelssohn in South Central LA and many others.
language: English
title: The Sound and the Fury : 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism - A Rock's Back Pages Reader
titlecomplete: The Sound and the Fury : 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism - A Rock's Back Pages Reader
genres: Journalism, Essays, Nonfiction, Music
ratings_count: 128
publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Ltd