- Published: 11 February 2016
- ISBN: 9781473546325
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
- Published: 11 February 2016
- ISBN: 9781473546325
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
A thrilling, inspirational read.
Bob Stanley, Guardian
Set the template for a whole new style of rock journalism, informed, irreverent, passionate and polemical.
Choice Magazine
The best writer about pop music...an inspiration.
Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 Music
Cohn was the first writer authentically to capture the raucous vitality of pop music
Sunday Telegraph
Of course I'm a Nik Cohn fan. His name is actually kind of a password. If somebody says they know about Nik Cohn, you know that person is literate -- and cool
Jay McInerney
Scholars of rock and roll still revere him for Awopbopaloobop, a passionate argument for the primacy of the three-minute pop song...A book ostensibly about popular music, but really about youth, innocence and rebellion
Observer
The book to read if you want to get some idea of the original primal energy of pop music. Loads of unfounded, biased assertions that almost always turn out to be right. Absolutely essential.
Jarvis Cocker, Guardian
The defining text of what its subtitle calls ''the Golden Age of Rock.'' Spun out in a series of perfectly turned, pocket-size biographies -- Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, the Beatles, the Stones, Dylan, the Who -- it is the closest thing there is to a rock version of Vasari's ''Lives of the Artists.'' It is a book full of attitude, shrewd (and sometimes cruel) judgments, youthful cynicism and aching love
New York Times
The first best book on rock 'n' roll and still the best first book to read.
Greil Marcus