Stranded. Rock and Roll for a Desert Island

Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Ellen Willis, Nick Tosches and others. Edited with a new preface by Greil Marcus. New foreword by Robert Christgau

ISBN 10: 0306806827 / ISBN 13: 9780306806827

Published by Da Capo Press Inc, New York, U.S.A., 1996

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Paperback. 21x14cm. xxii+305 pages. Flat spine. Front cover has a crease. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zx-flsh.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stranded. Rock and Roll for a Desert Island
• Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306806827
• ISBN 13: 9780306806827
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty other writers on rock—including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, Simon Frith, and Robert Christgau—a question: What one rock and roll album would you take to a desert island? The resulting essays were collected in Stranded, twenty passionate declarations that, appropriately, affirmed the solitary and obsessive activity that rock listening had become. Here are salutes, elegies, thank-you notes, and love letters to records such as the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet , the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, Something Else By the Kinks, and out-of-print classics by the Ronettes, Little Willie John, and Huey 'Piano' Smith; the whole is supplemented with Marcus's own invaluable annotated fifty-page discography, a “Treasure Island” of rock and roll. Stranded remains a classic of rock and roll literature, and perhaps the best possible answer to the question: What one rock and roll book would you take to a desert island?

About the Author

Greil Marcus is the author of Like a Rolling Stone and Mystery Train . His columns have appeared in the New York Times , Salon , Esquire , and Interview . He lives in Berkeley.