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Book Review: Led Zeppelin and the Velvet Underground
Led Zeppelin: Good Times, Bad Times A Visual Biography of the Ultimate Band By Jerry Prochnicky and Ralph Hulett Foreword by Anthony DeCurtis Published by Abrams 216 pp., $35.00 The Velvet Underground:...
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Book Review: Blues & Chaos
Blues & Chaos The Music Writing of Robert Palmer Edited by Anthony DeCurtis Scribner Review by David Chiu When it comes to music journalism, the late Robert Palmer is in a class all by himself. He...
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Book Review: Always Been There
Always Been There: Rosanne Cash, The List, and the Spirit of Southern Music By Michael Streissguth Da Capo Review by David Chiu Rosanne Cash is an artist of integrity. Anyone who is familiar with Cash...
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Book Review: Trust: Photographs By Jim Marshall
Trust: Photographs of Jim Marshall Published by Omnibus Press Review by David Chiu “Whenever anyone asks me how I got the photographs I did,/why I was often the only photographer present or got such...
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Book Review: Phish: The Biography
Phish: The Biography By Parke Puterbaugh DaCapo Review by David Chiu Not being a fan of the famous Vermont band, I originally thought when I heard about this book: Why a biography about Phish? The...
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Book Review: The Making of Pink Floyd: The Wall
The Making of Pink Floyd: ‘The Wall’ By Gerald Scarfe Foreword by Roger Waters Published by Da Capo Press Review by David Chiu For its time Pink Floyd’s The Wall represented the band’s most ambitious...
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Book Review: ‘Late, Late at Night’ by Rick Springfield
(from simonandschuster.com) Late, Late at Night By Rick Springfield Simon and Schuster Review By David Chiu If you ever wondered where the personal angst in Rick Springfield’s songs (i.e. “Jessie’s...
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Book Review: Joy Division
Joy Division By Kevin Cummins Rizzoli International Publications Review by David Chiu Just as Manchester band Joy Division were about to embark on their first American tour, singer Ian Curtis hung...
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Book Review: Becoming Elektra
(from jawbonepress.com)Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman’s Visionary Record Label By Mick Houghton Jawbone Press Review by David Chiu Sixty years ago, a St. John’s College student named...
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Book Review: Pretty Hate Machine by Daphne Carr
(cover image: bn.com) Pretty Hate Machine By Daphne Carr Published by Continuum Books Review by David Chiu At a time when hair metal and the pop music of George Michael, Fine Young Cannibals and others...
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