Grateful Dead fans are legendary for their Dead-ication to the band and its enduring legacy of freewheeling musical exploration. This book collects a trove of removable memorabilia and evocative images culled from the Grateful Dead Archives at the University of Santa Cruz, including photos, flyers, fan letters, and other ephemera.
Now at last, the surviving members have united to provide their fans with an intimate, all-access pass to their history - a tour of the band's personal archives, filled with previously unheard anecdotes and never-before-seen photos from their private collections.
Juxtaposing chilled-out Haight Ashbury hippies and history-making marches and concerts, The Sixties provides an invaluable visual record of the cultural shift of the decade, courtesy of one of Rolling Stone magazine's greatest photographers.
This lively book peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles, jingles, dedications, contests, requests - all the lightning-fast platter chatter, to quote the inimitable Wolfman Jack. Some of Top 40's most colorful DJs (also known as cooler rulers ) rant and rave about pioneering radio history's greatest format. Fifth Beatle Murray the K, the Real Don Steele,
From 1969-1981, Ben Fong-Torres wrote for Rolling Stone magazine and this book collects together some of his celebrity interviews and profiles, the stories behind them and the reactions to them. The artists featured include Jim Morrison, Ike and Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye and the Rolling Stones.