Category: This Month In Rock Writing

Richard Meltzer, This Month In Rock Writing

This Month In Rock Writing: May

Noise Boys Richard Meltzer ( May 10th, 1945 ) & John Mendelsohn ( May 12th, 1948 ) are born, much to the future delight & scorn of musicians & editors. On May 30th 1956, Time Magazine, while trying to convey Elvis Presley’s appeal, busts it down to the lowest common denominator saying that, “his movements suggest, in a word, sex.” Jerry Lee Lewis is booed … Continue reading This Month In Rock Writing: May

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Paul Williams, This Month In Rock Writing

This Month in Rock Writing: Bangs, Kent & Williams

Paul Williams’ book, Outlaw Blues, has an interview conducted with Doors producer Paul Rothchild, from March 1967, after the band’s first record release. It has to be the most unspoiled interview since nearly all of the infamous lizard king shenanigans have yet to occur. The following year, in “I’m Not A Juvenile Delinquent: The Death of Frankie Lymon,” Bill Millar writes a lovely obituary for … Continue reading This Month in Rock Writing: Bangs, Kent & Williams

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