Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Backbeat
Pages: 472
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4930-5092-5 • Paperback • October 2020 • $29.95 • (£25.00)
978-1-4930-5093-2 • eBook • October 2020 • $28.50 • (£19.99)
Michael Oberman became a weekly music columnist at age nineteen and wrote an interview column for six years (a total of more than three hundred interviews) before leaving for a career in the music business. At age fifty, he embarked on a new journey as a photographer. His photos are on permanent display in museums in the United States and Canada and have graced album covers, websites, galleries, and more. He currently lives in Columbia, Maryland.
"Oberman’s compilation is as charming an artifact as its title suggests...."An appealing slice of pop music history for fans and researchers of the era."- Library Journal
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Equal parts pop-cultural reportage and autobiography, these dispatches from the front lines of rock & roll are often as insightful as they are amusing, capturing the art form before it was one. Just as rock & roll was still defining itself, so was the role of rock critic. Mike Oberman was there.
— Kevin Avery