Originally published in hardcover: New York : Doubleday, 1998 Collection of previously published articles
Contents:
Elvis Presley's leap for freedom Beatles then, Beatles now Subterranean : Bob Dylan's passages The Rolling Stone's journey into fear The legacy of Jim Morrison and the Doors Lou Reed : Darkness and love Brothers : The Allman Brothers Band Keith Jarrett's keys to the cosmos Life & death in the U.K. : The Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., Joy Division, New Order, and the Jesus and Mary Chain The Clash : punk beginnings, punk endings Punk : twenty years after Van Halen : the endless party Bruce Springsteen's America The problem of Michael Jackson Upstarts : over and under the wall, and into the territory's center Clash of the titans : heavy metal enters the 1990s Randy Newman : songs of the promised land Al Green : sensuality in the service of the Lord Jerry Lee Lewis : the killer Miles Davis : the lion in winter Feargal Sharkey : songs of hearts and thieves Marianne Faithfull : trouble in mind Stan Ridgway's wrong people Sinead O'Connor's songs of experience David Baerwald's songs of secrets and sins Frank Sinatra : singing in the dark Dark shadows : Hank Williams, Nick Drake, Phil Ochs Tim Hardin : lost along the way Dennis Wilson : the lone surfer Marvin Gaye : troubled soul No simple highway : the story of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead Tupac Shakur : easy target Ella Fitzgerald : grace over pain Timothy Leary : the death of the most dangerous man Allen Ginsberg : for the fucking and the dying Kurt Cobain's road from nowhere : walking the streets of Aberdeen
