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New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop, and Others, 1974-1981 - Tapa blanda

Valentine, Gary

 
9781560259442: New York Rocker: My Life in the Blank Generation with Blondie, Iggy Pop, and Others, 1974-1981
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ISBN 10: 1560259442 ISBN 13: 9781560259442
Editorial: Da Capo Press, 2006

Sinopsis

By 1970, the hippie dream of the 60s was dead — the soundtrack of the revolution had become a multimillion-dollar industry. Glitter tried to save music's soul, but was too commercial to be cutting edge for long. Then, in 1974, a rescue movement arrived. Three chords, black jeans, a pair of shades, and a whole lot of attitude made music that matched the facts of life on its home ground, mid-70sNew York City's East Village. The initiators of punk, Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine, and Patti Smith had one foot in nineteenth-century French symbolist poetry and the other in the raw sound of their predecessors such as the Velvet Underground. This first-hand account of a little-documented era features luminaries such as Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Debbie Harry, Divine, Devo, and the New York Dolls, and tells of the gigs at CBGB hitting the news as Warhol and his glittering crew descended. What began as a unique blend of fin-de-siècle ennui and razor-sharp rock became anarchic frenzy and safety pins, overrun by gutter decadence and stupid-chic. With Malcolm McLaren hijacking the scene's momentum, the Blank Generation plunged into excess and eventual ruin, its survivors making the leap into mainstream.

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Acerca del autor

Gary Lachman, as Gary Valentine, was a founding member of Blondie, the revolutionary band inducted into Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, and he wrote the group's early hits. His books include A Dark Muse: A History of the Occult, Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Acquarius, and A Secret History of Consciousness. He lives in London.

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Editorial
Da Capo Press
Año de publicación
2006
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ISBN 10 
1560259442
ISBN 13 
9781560259442
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Número de páginas
306
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