Released in 1979, AC/DC's Highway To Hell was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Officially chalked up to "Death by Misadventure," Scott's demise has forever secured the album's reputation as a partying primer and a bible for lethal behavior, branding the album with the fun chaos of alcoholic excess and its flip side, early death. The best songs on Highway To Hell achieve Sonic Platonism, tr...

A superb new study of Jerry Lee Lewis that's as intense and fast paced as the life of "The Killer" himself, from the height of fame to the bumpy road that followed"The category in which Jerry Lee Lewis truly belongs is 'Jerry Lee Lewis.' The Killer is as big as Mount Rushmore, and he's also as American, as revered, as clichéd, as misunderstood, as corny, and as taken for granted as that monument. The curse of iconoclastic American success. Elvis felt it, so does Dylan. So will othe...

More than at any time in human history, our daily lives are scored and imprinted by music. We listen while bicycling, while taking walks, on the train to and from work, and at home on stereos or streaming. We’re immersed in music and music making virtually 24/7. Why is music such an essential part of the way we live, and how does it enrich and fasten itself to our very beings?Play This Book Loud tunes in to many voices, from mainstream bands to obscure artists, from Lydia ...

Using as its epigraph and unifying principle Luc Sante’s notion that Every human being is an archeological site,” Field Recordings from the Inside provides a deep and personal examination at the impact of music on our lives. Bonomo effortlessly moves between the personal and the critical, investigating the ways in which music defines our personalities, tells histories, and offers mysterious, often unbidden access into the human condition. The book explores the vagaries and richne...

AC/DC (33 1/3)«Το ομώνυμο κομμάτι του Highway to Hell δεν είναι απλώς ένα κλασικό κομμάτι των AC/DC, και από πολλές απόψεις το πιο χαρακτηριστικό τους, αλλά κι ένα τέλειο ροκ εν ρολ τραγούδι. Μέσα σε τριάμισι λεπτά οι AC/DC καταφέρνουν να αποδώσουν τη διονυσιακή υπερβολή, τη σαγήνη της ανυπακοής και τις υποσχέσεις των διπλών κιθαριστικών ριφ μ’ έναν τρόπο που γίνεται κατανοητός σε όλες τις γλώσσες και σε όλες τις κουλτούρες.Το “Highway To Hell”, το πυρετώδες αποκορύφωμα του...

Selected for the 2007 National Poetry Series by Naomi Shihab NyeThe prose poems in Installations invite the reader to encounter, in one extraordinary afternoon, a series of twenty art installations where something fantastic, perhaps improbable, occurs at the intersection of installed and imagined, spectator and event. Installations unites personal experience, suspense, and narrative—in those moments when we are forever altered by the mysterious an...

Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers*.* He brings a fan’s love, a fiction writer’s eye, and an essayist’s sensibility to the game. No other baseball writer has a through line quite like Angell’s: born in 1920, he was an avid fan of the game by the Depression era, when he watched Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig hit home runs at Yankee Stadium. He began writing about baseball in 1962 and continued through the decades, b...

L’histoire du scandale du mariage de Jerry Lee Lewis, démon originaire de Louisiane, en 1958 on découvrit alors qu’il avait, à l’âge de 22 ans, épousé sa petite cousine Myra âgée de 13 ans avant même d’avoir divorcé de sa précédente épouse avait depuis longtemps établi la réputation de l’homme et de sa musique. Le scandale sera toujours plus excitant que n’importe quelle autre histoire. Toute sa vie, Jerry Lee sera hanté par ce cuisant souvenir et ne doutons pas qu’à sa mort, ce fameux scan...

Released in 1979, AC/DC's Highway To Hell was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Officially chalked up to ""Death by Misadventure,"" Scott's demise has forever secured the album's reputation as a partying primer and a bible for lethal behavior, branding the album with the fun chaos of alcoholic excess and its flip side, early death. The best songs on Highway To Hell achieve Sonic Platonism, translating rock &...

Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, "There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate." For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated points of departure, mapping alternate histories and surprising correspondences. He is a unique and influential voice in American letters.Marcus was born in 1945 in San Francisco. In 1968 he published his first piece, a review of Ma...

Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, “There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate.” For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures, sounds, and events in culture, relating unrelated points of departure, mapping alternate histories and surprising correspondences. He is a unique and influential voice in American letters.Marcus was born in 1945 in San Francisco. In 1968 he published his first piece, a review of Ma...