Kurzbeschreibung:

The final word from one of popular musics greatest critics.
In the summer of 2020, acclaimed music critic and journalist Peter Goddard began work on a new book that would take readers on a journey back through his fifty-plus years spent writing professionally about rock music and the musical styles circling it everything from blues and jazz to country and classical. His plan was to revisit his old haunts and their habitués, scenes and figures he first wrote about starting in the mid-1960s when he became Canadas first on-staff popular music critic, to show how ongoing revisions continually reframe first impressions.
Tragically, Goddard died in 2022 before work on the manuscript was complete. But many of the core essays on Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Who, k.d. lang, David Bowie, Liza Minelli, The Band, Neil Diamond, and others are here. Accompanying these new essays is a collection of some of the best writing of...