Stories Done : : Writings on the 1960S and its Discontents
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Pioneers and a border town. Allen Ginsberg : holy man ; Timothy Leary : the death of the most dangerous man in America ; The end of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead ; Ken Kesey's great American trip ; Haight-Ashbury in the summer of loss -- The Beatles : pinnacles & wakes. The mystery inside George Harrison ; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band : within and without the Beatles ; The mystery inside John Lennon -- The displaced. Johnny Cash : September when it comes ; Bob Marley's hell on earth -- Genius, intoxication, downfalls and hard reclamations. Phil Ochs' tale of American ruin ; Hunter S. Thompson : the last outlaw ; Jim Morrison and the Doors : the virtues of waste ; The Allman Brothers Band : bonds of music and elegy ; The long shadow of Led Zeppelin ; The madness and wonder of Pink Floyd -- The living. Bob Dylan : not there, then there ; Leonard Cohen's life of depression.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Free Press, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: viii, 391 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780743287456
0743287452
SUBJECTS
Musicians -- Biography.
Beat generation -- Biography.
Popular music -- History -- 20th century.
Popular music -- History and criticism.