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Where Has This Classic Gone?,
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This review is from: The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, 1950-1980 (Hardcover)
When The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll's FIRST EDITION was published I bought two copies as gifts. Since that time, both people who were lucky enough to get copies of this classic have somehow managed to lose the books. And I have been trying to find a copy for myself for several years but no one seems to have it. The photographs in this FIRST EDITION are excellent and do give us the best glimpse back into the history of rock and roll that I've ever seen. And even though the biographical information is not exquisitely detailed, it does provide readers with a general overview of the Big Picture of Rock and Roll History, from soup to nuts, of how Rock and Roll all got started and its evolvution.
The book peaks with the Woodstock Era, but takes us up to around the end of the 70's, around the days of Led Zeppelin and the birth of heavy metal.
Here's what I find very annoying: When the Second Edition came out, much of the writing and photography was edited out - for reasons I can't begin to fathom. Personally, I wouldn't want the second edition on my book shelf. The publishers have ruined a good thing when all they had to do was create a Volume II edition, and they would have sold more copies of both editions - as companions.
Rather than make a second volume as a companion to the first, they butchered this historical book and gave over to the Punksters that followed. Gone are the pictures of Jimmy Page, the Woodstock photo, and many more, in place of Johnny Rotten and other Punks that really turned what was a good thing, Rock and Roll, into an angry, painful noise that basically signalled an end to the good times and the poignancy of artists like Jethro Tull, or even Pink Floyd, and focused on negativity. This era (the 80's - 90's, would have been better left to a separate volume. But to destroy the First Edition, in my opinion, was butchery. You just don't do that. It's like changing the Mona Lisa because you think there should be fruit trees in the background. Or a modern skyscraper to show what came later.
If you're lucky enough to have a copy of the original, keep it. It's a keepsake. And Rolling Stone, if you're listening ... what in the hell were you thinking when you trashed this great book?
If anyone has a copy they'd like to sell, please let me know!
Long Live Rock and The First Editions
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