Book Reviews
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A decade ago, one couldn’t move around in online social circles without hearing the phrase, ‘I’m Rick James, bitch!” Thanks to an appearance on the cable program Chappelle’s Show, the funk legend’s eccentric, hedonistic persona was revived, yet one couldn’t shake James’ appearance—bloated, occasionally babbling and making seemingly contradictory statement, he was not a well Read more
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Considering how well documented his life has been for the past fifty years, it’s still somewhat rare to get Sir Paul McCartney to sit down and talk about Wings and his career during the Seventies. He’s always been a little wiggly, but fortunately, journalist Tom Doyle has had the rare fortune to get him Read more
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I am a sucker for a good oral history text, and when I learned of Mad World, an oral history of New Wave, I eagerly acquired it. Though not the comprehensive history of the genre as I had initially hoped, what it offered was equally as welcome and as entertaining as I had hoped. Read more
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