
The rise and fall of a true American icon: A rock star, inspired by genre-busting musicians of the sixties like Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, and Marvin Gaye.A swirling sixties saga of the rise and fall of a true American icon: A rock star. But not just any rock star: Rock Foxx is an outrageous showman whose unprecedented mixed-race, mixed-gender band made a new kind of socially conscious music that...
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Melville House (April 21, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933633700
ISBN-13: 978-1933633701
Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 1679661
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I bought this book after hearing a plug on NPR. Then I had to plug away to get through it. Personally, I found the prose staccato and superficial, and I was never able to connect with the characters. Hard to think you can go wrong with a book on s...
ious and tribal and scaled the heights of sixties rock stardom, all the way to Woodstock and beyond. But Foxx seemed to disappear at the height of his fame, his contagious, upbeat music darkening, then ending ubruptly amidst rumors of drugs and violence, as the culture itself exploded into massive riots and assassinations.In the hands of New Yorker editor Ben Greenman, it's a story that is both highly literary and simply entertaining, a tale about rock and roll and about a complicated but key moment in our history. Exciting, funny, disturbing and uplifting, with some of the most deft and absorbing writing about music ever to appear in American fiction, this pseudo-bio of a fascinating character is an amazing creation in itself, and sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.