Read All About It: Rock Books to Live By
Barney Hoskyns, Time Out's 1000 Books To Save Your Life, 2007
YOU'D THINK I'd be able to write about rock books in my sleep. But of course the task is dreadfully daunting, "rock" now being an engulfing umbrella for way too many (sub-) genres of modern popular music. I'm focusing, therefore, on the tomes that have most excited and illuminated me as a fan.
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