Here Comes The Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm & Blues by Joel Selvin
Kirk Silsbee, Downbeat, July 2014
AMERICAN POP MUSIC from the no-man's-land after The Day The Music Died (Buddy Holly's fatal 1959 plane crash) and before the arrival of the Beatles has been unfairly maligned for decades as the province of manufactured teen idols that spewed out pimply pop.
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