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'The definitive history of rock 'n' roll' Rolling Stone

About the Author

Nik Cohn was brought up in Derry, Northern Ireland. His books include I Am Still the Greatest Says Johnny Angelo, Ball the Wall, The Heart of the World, Need and Triksta- Life and Death and New Orleans Rap. He also wrote the story that gave rise to Saturday Night Fever and collaborated on Rock Dreams and Twentieth Century Dreams with the artist Guy Peellaert. He lives in New York.

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A thrilling, inspirational read.
*Guardian*

Set the template for a whole new style of rock journalism, informed, irreverent, passionate and polemical.
*Choice Magazine*

The best writer about pop music...an inspiration.
*BBC Radio 6 Music*

The book to read if you want to get some idea of the original primal energy of pop music. Loads of unfounded, biased assertions that almost always turn out to be right. Absolutely essential.
*Guardian*

Cohn was the first writer authentically to capture the raucous vitality of pop music
*Sunday Telegraph*

The defining text of what its subtitle calls ''the Golden Age of Rock.'' Spun out in a series of perfectly turned, pocket-size biographies -- Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, the Beatles, the Stones, Dylan, the Who -- it is the closest thing there is to a rock version of Vasari's ''Lives of the Artists.'' It is a book full of attitude, shrewd (and sometimes cruel) judgments, youthful cynicism and aching love
*New York Times*

The first best book on rock 'n' roll and still the best first book to read.
*Greil Marcus*

Of course I'm a Nik Cohn fan. His name is actually kind of a password. If somebody says they know about Nik Cohn, you know that person is literate -- and cool
*Jay McInerney*

Scholars of rock and roll still revere him for Awopbopaloobop, a passionate argument for the primacy of the three-minute pop song...A book ostensibly about popular music, but really about youth, innocence and rebellion
*Observer*

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