EAN: 9780593312537

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest and last American rock band of the millennium whose music ignited a generation—and reasserted the power of rock and roll "[Carlin's] unique gift for capturing the sweep and tenor of a cultural moment...is here on brilliant display." —Michael Chabon In the spring of 1980 an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens Georgia. Within a few short years they had taken over the world – with smash records like Out of Time Automatic for the People Monster and Green . Raw outrageous and expressive R.E.M.’s distinctive musical flair was unmatched and a string of mega-successes solidified them as generational spokesmen. In the tumultuous transition between the wide-open 80s and the anxiety of the early 90s R.E.M. challenged the corporate and social order chasing a vision and cultivating a magnetic transgressive sound. In this rich intimate biography critically acclaimed author Peter Ames Carlin looks beyond the sex drugs and rock’n’roll to open a window into the fascinating lives of four college friends – Michael Stipe Peter Buck Mike Mills and Bill Berry – who stuck together at any cost until the end. Deeply descriptive and remarkably poetic steeped in 80s and 90s nostalgia The Name of This Band is R.E.M. paints a cultural history of the commercial peak and near-total collapse of a great music era and the story of the generation that came of age at the apotheosis of rock.

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