Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler) and the Furious Five was the first hip hop group to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Saddler hosts a weekly Sirius Satellite Radio show, DJ Grandmaster Flash, on Hot Jamz (channel 50), Saturdays ... [... more]
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Slash
Robert Knight is the Rock Prophet; the one man who can rightfully say "It happened and I was there." Since 1968 Knight's photographs have served as testimony to the greatest moments in rock and roll history. Rock Prophet is a profuse collection [... more]
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Fred Goodman
In 1964, on the brink of the British Invasion, the music business in America shunned rock and roll. There was no rock press, no such thing as artist management -- literally no rock-and-roll business. Today the industry will gross over $20 ... [... more]
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Mikal Gilmore
Mikal Gilmore has covered and criticized rock & roll, its culture, and related issues for many national publications. He was music editor for the L.A. Weekly and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and for twenty years has worked on the staff of ... [... more]
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John Morthland
Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional ... [... more]
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