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Another little piece of my heart : my life of rock and revolution in the '60s / Richard Goldstein.

by Goldstein, Richard, 1944-

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Bloomsbury, 2015.

781.66092 G624a

Goldstein, Richard, 1944-

Music journalists -- United States -- Biography.

Rock music -- History and criticism.

Nineteen sixties.

9781620408872 (hc.)

1620408872 (hc.)

9781620408889 (pbk.)

1620408880 (pbk.)

223 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Wretched refuse -- Nearly naked through the not exactly negro streets at dawn -- White like me -- I don't know what this is, but you owe me a story -- A dork's progress -- Flowers in my hair -- Weird scenes in the gold mine -- The summer of my discontent -- I was a teenage Marcel Proust -- The unraveling -- Groucho Marxism -- The whole world is watching -- The reckoning -- Aftermath (or: There's a bathroom on the right).

"In 1966, at the ripe age of 22, Richard Goldstein approached The Village Voice with a novel idea. "I want to be a rock critic," he said. "What's that?" the editor replied. It was a logical question, since rock criticism didn't yet exist. In the weekly column he would produce for the Voice, Goldstein became the first person to write regularly in a major publication about the music that changed our lives. He believed deeply in the power of rock, and, long before it was acceptable, he championed the idea that this music was a serious art form. He toured with Janis Joplin, spent a day at the Grateful Dead house in San Francisco, and dropped acid with Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys. He took Susan Sontag to her first disco. The early deaths of rock legends Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison came as a wrenching shock, fueling his disillusionment as he watched the music he loved rapidly evolve from a communal rite to a vast industry -- and the sense of hope for radical social upheaval faded away. A memoir of a writer as a young man with profound ambition, and a personal account of a decade of rock and revolution in America"--Provided by publisher.

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