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Charles Shaar Murray
Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix & The Post-War Rock ‘N’ Roll Revolution
London: Faber & Faber, 1989.
“Pop mythology [is] a loose conflation of lies, rumours, old newspaper cuttings and snap judgements”.
Charles Shaar Murray, Crosstown Traffic.
“’Scuse me while I kiss the sky”.
Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze.
Good writing transcends genre. If that is an acceptable proposition at least for consideration, then rock writing has often been treated as a poor relation of “higher” forms of journalism, despite a steady manumission of music writers to the mainstream media which extends back decades. (more…)