Death of Rock 'n' Roll: Untimely Demises, Morbid Preoccupations, and Premature Forecasts of Doom in Pop Music by Jeff Pike
Death of Rock 'n' Roll: Untimely Demises, Morbid Preoccupations, and Premature Forecasts of Doom in Pop Music
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Jeff Pike
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Death of Rock 'n' Roll: Untimely Demises, Morbid Preoccupations, and Premature Forecasts of Doom in Pop Music

Jeff Pike

289 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

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Rock has had a strange affinity with death ever since bluesman Robert Johnson allegedly made a pact with the devil in the 1930s. Pike explores the death-rock connection from the poisoning of Johnson in 1938 to the present day. Includes stories of ...

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