I just closed a book great. For those, like myself, have experienced the music of the 70 (end of the decade for me) and the 80 reading and Best Rock & Folk will find in those 500 pages full of good articles this time, then also in other media (Current, Libération, Les inrocks).
True, Pierre Lescure as recalled in the preface that we have excellent "Rock Critic" in France which have often spread to other genres like the novel, film or television. I dedicate a special devotion to Philippe Garnier who was long resident correspondent of Rock & Folk California Articles Foutraque but exciting, his dazzling, vibrant style.
I come moreover to regret terribly to have one day (1988?) threw my entire collection of Rock'n'Folk to make room on the shelves of my studio in the Rue de Armorica, to accommodate the business of a girlfriend. Today I regret more magazines than the girlfriend!
Of all the items that I liked about this book, I receive particular ten:
- Traveling with Jimi Hendrix by Alain Dister (1967)
- Interviews with Mick Jagger by Philip Paringaux (in 1970) and Bruno Blum (1980)
- Philippe Garnier investigating Cramps and Ubu (1977)
- A sensitive portrait of Robert Wyatt by Paul Alessandrini (1974)
- A poignant interview Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) who has gone mad by Michka Assayas ( 1992)
- Efforts to excessive Starshooter to achieve success and Trust Telephone by Christopher Nick (1983)
- A very fine article on the Archangel-poet Nick Drake by François Gorin (2004)
- The legal entanglements around the copyright of The Lambada told by Yves Bigot (1989)
- Survey the manner of a private youth Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey by Serge Kaganski (1997) Do
missing in this book that finally the signature of the legendary Philippe Manoeuvre who would not unpaired but did not wish to appear, and other lesser-known authors such as Herve Picart who chronicled in the Best hard rock and progressive rock in an emphatic style that always made me smile.
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