Customer Review: "Kill Your Idols" is a collection of essays edited by Jim DeRogatis and Carmel Carrillo that attack the notion that rock and roll is a dead art form whose best days are behind it. In the book, DeRogatis defines rock and roll as a spontaneous explosion of personality and attitude that makes the... more info
Customer Review: While the 12 pages of the book that actually contain info on the Clash are cleverly written (if you like British humor), there is far too little of it. I guess seeing the cover - a great pic of Strummer, with the promise that the author will "kill my idol" - got my expectations up too high. This... more info
Customer Review: Sheppard sets the stage for this weak book by entirely misconstruing the value of the two major 1990s Cohen biographies. He says _Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen_ is for "besotted" Cohenites, whereas _Leonard Cohen: Prophet of the Heart_ is for the more "literary" minded. Turn this... more info
Customer Review: I ordered this book in a drunken stupor, and the first thing I did after reading it was check myself into AA.
This is a truly terrible book, full of terrible prose, gagging pretension (the back cover makes a point to say the Kill Your Idol line is 'a series of opinionated biographies'...be... more info
Customer Review: This is the perfect "beginners" Elvis Costello book. But thats the most it has to offer. Lots of facts and stuff about his early years. It is so interesting to me that he came from a musical family background. I then suggest moving on to the Brian Hinton bio which is the definitive and best book... more info
Customer Review: Don't but this little book! It has less information than most of the magizine articles that are the basis of the author's knowledge base. It is unclear if the author has ever meet,interviewed or seen Mr. Waits preform. Huge omissions and years of information are not present. Some facts like the fact... more info
Customer Review: The book is kind of thin - much of it is taken up with photos and discography. That being said, I quite enjoyed the
opening section where Neil's start in the music biz is laid out.
It's very clear that Neil wasn't an instant success and that
early on a willingness to hang in there... more info
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