Charles Robinson wrote:
On Jan 20, 2006, at 11:40, Bob Shell wrote:
If the interview ever looks like it will happen again I'll read that
first!!
(Maybe you should read it afterwards - wouldn't want to scare you off
of doing the interview!)
(Slight recommendation for that book if you wonder where "punk"
REALLY started. As a clue, I'll tell you it wasn't The Ramones and
the Sex Pistols who started it - not by a long shot. Not a great
book, but kind of interesting if you ever listened to any of the
music referenced in there)
Granted, we all grow and change (and many of us even mature as we do
it) so who knows what he's like these days? But.... wow.
For people interested in rock/pop history, I recommend Lollipop
Lounge by Genya Ravan. Genya was the singer fronting Ten Wheel Drive
and one of Mick Jagger's girlfriends. She was right in the middle of
things in those formative days. And she writes well, too (unless it
was ghosted).
The book I mentioned was written by someone called Legs McNeil - how
could you resist a book by someone with a name like that? :-)
Two other authors that I have never read but their name incites me to:
Studs Turkel and Julius Axelrod.
