Books by Pete Fornatale and Complete Book Reviews

50 Licks: Myths & Stories from Half a Century of The Rolling Stones

Pete Fornatale. Bloomsbury, $17 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60819-921-1

In his final book, the late Fornatale (Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends) misses his intended mark but still scores a hit with this ramshackle collection of observations, stories, and ephemera surrounding one of rock's most iconic bands. Using 50 songs

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Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock

Pete Fornatale, Author, Country Joe McDonald, Foreword by . Touchstone $24.99 (303p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9119-1

Introducing his engaging oral history, Fornatale, an author and longtime New York radio personality, admits that his attempt to parse fact from fiction regarding an endlessly mythologized pop culture milestone, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair,...

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The Story of Rock ""N"" Roll

Pete Fornatale, Author, Graham Nash, Foreword by William Morrow & Company $15 (210p) ISBN 978-0-688-06276-7

The disc jockey and author (The Rock Music Source Book and Radio in the Television Age surveys the 30-odd-years history of rock music, touching on every influential act in the field (with the perhaps puzzling exception of the Talking Heads), though...

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