Rock 'Til You Drop The Decline from Rebellion

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.

John Strausbaugh is the editor of the Manhattan weekly New York Press. His previous books include E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith and Alone With the President. He was in numerous rock bands in his youth, but knew when to quit

Preface to the Paperback Edition

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Boom Boom Boom Boomer

Colostomy Rock, and What It Says about My Generation

1

(32)

Steel Wheelchairs

The Historical Reenactment of the Once-Great Rolling Stones

33

(48)

Up Against the Wall, Mother Hubbard

Rock and the Gestural Revolution

81

(52)

Rock Pravda

How Rolling Stone Tumed Thirty, and Why You Didn't Care

133

(40)

The Hall of Lame

Why There Shouldn't Be Rock Museums

173

(18)

Punk

Not the Death of Rock, Just the Decline of Western Civ

191

(22)

Post-Rock

Why Doughty Doesn't Think Any of This Is Important

213

(30)

Appendix Rock in New York: The Sounds and the Stories

243

(14)

Bibliography

257

(4)

Permissions

261

(2)

Acknowledgments

263

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Rock 'Til You Drop The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia

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