Alan Light, Author . Three Rivers $14 (206p) ISBN 978-0-609-60478-6
New York rock-rappers the Beastie Boys have seized a remarkable place in music history, as world-famous pop stars, as white MCs and as one of the influential first wave of groups that broke hip-hop, albeit their own special brand of it, into the...
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Alan Light. Atria, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5784-5
Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” has been performed and recorded by hundreds of artists from U2, Justine Timberlake, and Celine Dion to Renee Fleming and Willie Nelson, and Rolling Stone named it one of the 500 greatest songs of all time. Ironically,...
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Alan Light. Atria, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7672-9
On Halloween in 1983, Prince and director Albert Magnoli began filming Purple Rain, building upon the strength of Prince’s 1983 album of the same title. As music journalist Light (The Holy and the Broken) points out in sometimes repetitious,...
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Alan Light. Smithsonian, $40 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58834-639-1
Working with the Cash family, Light (The Holy or the Broken) has gathered hundreds of never-before-seen photographs, lyric sheets, posters, and other artifacts from the Johnny Cash archives to produce this stunning and lavishly illustrated biography
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Alan Licht, Author, Alan Light, Author . Drag City $11.98 (76p) ISBN 978-0-9656183-3-5
Despite the title's invocation of the early MTV "VJ," this book is nothing less than a treatise on the decline and fall of rock music as a viable artistic and cultural medium—and an enormously smart and entertaining one at that....
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Alan Light. Atria, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-1-66805-437-6
Music journalist Light (Let’s Go Crazy) takes a lively look at why Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 record Rumours has become the “single classic-rock album that continues to attract young listeners.” For the less initiated, the author shares behind-the-scenes...
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