Stories done
Subtitle: the music and artists of our era and the end of music's influence on our culture
By: Mikal Gilmore.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780743287456
Subjects: Musicians -- Biography; Beat generation -- Biography; Popular music -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century; Popular music -- History and criticism
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: Pioneers and a border town. Allen Ginsberg : holy man ; Timothy Leary : the death of the most dangerous man in America ; The end of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead ; Ken Kesey's great American trip ; Haight-Ashbury in the summer of loss ; The Beatles : pinnacles & wakes ; The mystery inside George Harrison ; Sgt. Pepper : within and without the Beatles ; The mystery inside John Lennon; title: The displaced. Johnny Cash : September when it comes ; Bob Marley's hell on earth; title: Genius, intoxication, downfalls & hard reclamations. Phil Ochs' tale of American ruin ; Hunter S. Thompson : the last outlaw ; Jim Morrison and the Doors : the virtues of waste ; The Allman Brothers Band : bonds of music & elegy ; The long shadow of Led Zeppelin ; The madness and wonder of Pink Floyd; title: The living. Bob Dylan : not there, then there ; Leonard Cohen's life of depression; title: Postlude : Valley of the dolls.