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Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music, "simply peerless, " in Nick Hornby's words, "not only as a rock writer but as a cultural historian", and Bob Dylan, who in 2016 won the Nobel Pr...

A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & 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 the 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...

First published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company under the title Invisible republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes"--T.p. verso.

Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisted by his foremost interpreter, weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing timesThe book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota, his very first appearance at his alma mater, on election night 2008. In between are moments of euphoric discovery: From Marcus's liner notes for the 1967 Basement Tapes ...

Complete collection of Marcus's "Top Ten" columns, from 1986-2014, which encompass all aspects of popular culture as well as music.

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In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the American public consciousness - and subconscious.

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America is a nation whose sense of righteousness goes hand in hand with paranoia. Greil Marcus explores the influence of culture and politics on the American psyche - and the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives.

Il rock 'n' roll è abbandono senza freni - lo ha detto Neil Young -, un abbandono che è nel volto schivo, negli assoli aspri e nel canto strozzato di Buddy Holly o negli occhi velati di Ian Curtis, mentre precipita con la voce e il corpo nella voragine di note di Transmission. Nei cori di Paul McCartney e John Lennon, che si inseguono nella cover di Money (That's What I Want) di Barrett Strong, e nell'inguaribile perdita cantata da Amy Winehou...

This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves.

Was punk just another moment in music history, a flash in time when a group of young rebels exploded in a fury of raw sound? Greil Marcus delves into the afterlife of punk as a much richer phenomenon - a form of artistic and social rebellion that continually erupts into popular culture.

In June of 1992, when all the polls showed that Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio Hall show, put on dark glasses, and blew "Heartbreak Hotel." Greil Marcus, one of America's most imaginative and insightful popular culture critics, was the first to name this as the moment that turned Clinton's campaign around—, and to make sense of why. "Double Trouble" draws on articles Marcus published from 1992 to...

Listening to Van Morrison represents Greil Marcus's quest to trace Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in his long career, beginning in 1965, breaking open in 1968 with the incomparable Astral Weeks, and continuing in full force to this day.