Rock 100: Um, What Was It We Wanted To Say?
Lenny Kaye, David Dalton, Cooper Square (reissue), 1999
Rock's Backpages will, over the coming weeks, be presenting selected chapters from the 1999 re-issue of Lenny Kaye and David Dalton's classic 1977 book Rock 100. Rather than attempt an introduction ourselves, we'll let the guys say it themselves. Take it away, boys...
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