Dan LeRoy is the Director of Writing and Publishing at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, USA. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, The Village Voice, Esquire online, and Alternative Press. He is the author of The Beastie Boys’ Paul's Boutique (Bloomsbury, 2006), The Greatest Music Never Sold (2007), For Whom the Cowbell Tolls (2014), and Liberty’s Lions: The Catholic Revolutionaries Who Established America (2021).
The idea was simple: to ask a group of authors to each write a book
about a classic album. What emerged became Continuum's 33 1/3
series. Without guidelines or rules, each author embraced their own
favourite album and chose exactly how they wanted to write about
it.As a result, each book is by turn anecdotal, obsessive,
technical and personal, but always passionate.
*Swell Music, December 2006*
...recognized as a cultish, kaleidoscopic classic...a frequently
illuminating and entertaining tale...
*Mojo*
Just how the hell did three snot-nosed party boys from Brooklyn go
from fighting for the right to party to creating 1989's hip-hop
masterpiece Paul's Boutique? The album, with its thousands of
samples, is an aural encyclopedia of musical landmarks, served up
in a funk stew of arrogance, attitude, and ultimately, adoration
for the components from which it comes. LeRoy has done a great job
capturing the surroundings, the people involved, and the reaction
then. The insights as to how the record was constructed, from the
mighty foot of John Bonham to the scratchy guitar of '70s funk, are
illuminating. Fire up Paul's on the iPod, crack the spine of this
little tome, and "Shake Your Rump".
*The Big Takeover*
Eminently entertaining and essential.
*New Books Network*
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