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Melville House
May 2009
On Sale: April 21, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 1933633700
EAN: 9781933633701
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Non-Fiction
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 was infectious 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.
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