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As the Rolling Stones and The Who drag themselves through yet more world tours and middle-aged punk rockers plot nostalgic reunions, this lively and controversial book charts the decline of a generation that started out as self-anointed world-changers and ended up as a ‘colostomy rock’ parody.
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John Strausbaugh is the editor of New York Press. His previous books include E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith.
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The Who sang "Hope I die before I get old" way back in 1965, and they have spent the last two decades having that sentiment thrown back in their faces. The latest critic to take aim at the aging rock establishment and its malignant effect on a once vibrant art form is John Strausbaugh, the editor of the weekly newspaper New York Press. A collection of Strausbaugh's writings, reorganized and amplified, this entertaining polemic has plenty of targets: corporate rock bands like the Rolling Stones; corporate rock magazines like, well, Rolling Stone; MTV; do-gooder rock festivals; and just about anyone or anything else who commodifies teen-age rebellion and dyspepsia for immense personal gain.
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