Joel Selvin

Sly & the Family Stone

An Oral History

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Produktbeschreibung

Their music changed pop history, but we’ve never known much about the people who made it…until now. "...a first-hand account of both the kaleidoscopic talent that drove Stone to the top and attracted so many people to him, and the madness that he soon descended into and never truly returned from, a victim of ego, drug abuse sycophants and the era.... It amounts to a definitive history of one of the rock generation’s greatest and most tragic artists." —Jem Aswad, Variety, "The Best Music Books of 2022" "…the musical trajectory of Sly & The Family Stone, and especially its namesake and leader, Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart), makes even the most shocking episode of Behind the Music look like Nickelodeon programming. Esteemed music journo Joel Selvin chronicles the good, the bad, the ugly (and the really ugly), in a new reissue of his 1998 book, Sly & The Family Stone: An Oral History." —Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Permuted Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 138mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781637585023
• ISBN-10: 1637585020
• Artikelnr.: 63736942

Autorenporträt

Joel Selvin is an American San Francisco–based music critic and author known for his weekly column in the San Francisco Chronicle, which ran from 1972 to 2009. Selvin has written more than 20 books covering various aspects of pop music—including the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Red: My Uncensored Life In Rock with Sammy Hagar—and published articles in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, Billboard, and Melody Maker. He has written liner notes for dozens of recorded albums and appeared in countless documentaries. His most recent book is Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars and the Myth of the California Paradise.