Tony Fletcher, Author . Norton $18.95 (476p) ISBN 978-0-393-33483-8
From the Brill Building to CBGB, from Washington Square Park to the Apollo Theater, New York has been the birthplace and center of an astonishing variety of musical trends. In his richly detailed study of 50 years of the city's most important...
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Tony Fletcher. Crown Archetype, $30 (704p) ISBN 978-0-307-71595-1
The Smiths, one of the most influential rock groups in the U.K. since the Beatles—perhaps the most influential U.K. band of the 1980s—finally get the complete and vivid biography they deserve. Fletcher, a music journalist who has written well-receive
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Tony Fletcher. Oxford Univ, $27.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-19-025294-6
Drawing on interviews with brilliant soul singer Wilson Pickett’s friends and family, as well as several of the studio musicians who worked with him, Fletcher (All Hopped Up and Ready to Go) paints a colorful portrait of Pickett’s life and music. He
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Tony Fletcher, Author, Tony Fletcher, Foreword by William Morrow & Company $30 (608p) ISBN 978-0-380-97337-8
Unlike other memorable figures of 1960s rock and roll, Keith Moon's one-dimensionally hedonistic persona presents quite a challenge to his biographer. Fletcher does a noble job, having gone to scholarly extremes to offer a thoroughly detailed...
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