Volume 24, Number 1 · February 3, 1977
Where All the Flowers Went
By Mark Crispin Miller
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll
edited by Jim Miller
Random House/Rolling Stone Press, 382 pp., $9.95 (paper)
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
by Tony Palmer
Viking, 323 pp., $15.00
Rock, Roll and Remember
by Dick Clark, by Richard Robinson
Crowell, 276 pp., $9.95
The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record
by Roy Carr
Harmony Books, 120 pp., $6.95 (paper)
What's That Sound?
edited by Ben Fong-Torres
Doubleday/Anchor, 426 pp., $3.50 (paper)
John Lennon: One Day at a Time
by Anthony Fawcett
Grove Press, 192 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music
by Greil Marcus
Dutton, 271 pp., $3.50 (paper)
Some of us used to think that rock would die with its beads on, gunned down in the street by agents of the law. This thrill of paranoia was the bequest of rock's abrasive history. As the Great Domestic Annoyance of the Fifties, in the days of Elvis Presley, rock & roll played with sinister jubilance off in the distance, breaking the jowly slumbers of the burghers and their wives, and sometimes it exploded right upstairs, in one of the kids' bedrooms. Dad, paunchy and balding, gripping the evening paper in one angry fist, hammers against the bedroom door, and yells hoarsely into the hypnotic din: 'WILL YOU TURN THAT DAMNED THING DOWN!' Downstairs in the kitchen, Mom clucks to herself fretfully.
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