Waiting For The Man: The Story of Drugs and Popular Music - Softcover

Shapiro, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900924587 ISBN 13: 9781900924580

Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

From marijuana and jazz, through acid-rock and speed-fuelled punk, from crack-driven rap to Ecstasy and the dance generation, this is the definitive history of drugs and pop. It also features in-depth portraits of music’s most famous drug addicts: from Charlie Parker to Sid Vicious to Jim Morrison to Kurt Cobain. Chosen by the BBC as one of the Top Twenty Music Books of All Time.

"Wise and witty."—The Guardian

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"One of the twenty greatest music books of all time." -- BBC's Music for the Millennium, December 1999

From the Publisher:

Updated classic study of macabre links between drugs and pop
Drugs and pop have been inextricably intertwined since marijuana and jazz flourished in mob-controlled 1920s prohibition speakeasies. Shapiro documents the origins and progress of each new development in drugs and pop and tells in detail the stories of music's most famous drug casualties - Bird, Hendrix, Morrison, Moon, Vicious et al - while examining the collusion of the billion dollar record industry. First published in 1988, this edition is fully revised and now covers the rise of crack and rap, ecstasy and the dance culture and the return of the wasted junkie rock star.

About this edition

• Publisher: Helter Skelter Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1900924587
• ISBN 13: 9781900924580
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352