ISBN: 9780743287463

Edition: First Free Press trade paperback edition.

Description: viii, 391 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Previously published essays.

Contents:

• 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 : 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 & 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 & 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.

LCCN: 2008024119

Control Number: 2220941

Subjects:

• Beats (Persons) -- Biography.
• Musicians -- Biography.
• Nineteen sixties -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
• Nineteen sixties.
• Popular music -- History and criticism.
• Popular music -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.

Genre: Biographies.