Most books about the history of rock music are written by people who weren’t there when that history was made. It’s something they have in common with books about World War II: the authors may know all the facts, but they don’t feel the chronology in their bones the way they would if they had actually been there. I know lots of young people who know more than I do about the Beatles because they’ve grown up reading about them. On the other hand, I grew up living them.
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