By 1961, Joan Baez, the dark-haired waif who had captured the spotlight at the first Newport Folk Festival just two years earlier, was folk music's virginal superstar, leading the coffeehouse culture of a new American generation. And an unknown, unwashed, Woody Guthrie—worshiping kid from the Minnesota suburbs named Bob Dylan had just arrived in Greenwich Village. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Positively 4th Street, DAVID HAJDU recalls the prickly beginnings of the Baez-Dylan relationship, the strange symbiosis between her voice and his music, and the triumphant, magical appearance at Freebody Park that made musical history
The frontman of Sly and the Family Stone brought the house down at Woodstock with a performance of I Want To Take You Higher. These extracts from his new memoir depict a life as vivid and riotous as the music of his band
The immeasurably influential, infamously erratic soul star has written an unlikely autobiography. In a rare interview, Stone opens up on drugs, feuds and his treasure trove of unreleased tracks<br>
Don’t be afraid of the past. Yours or anyone else’s. It will always be there, and you can pretend it doesn’t exist, but it’s still there, nevertheless. One way to make peace with the past is to listen to it.
Don’t be afraid of the past. Yours or anyone else’s. It will always be there, and you can pretend it doesn’t exist, but it’s still there, nevertheless. One way to make peace with the past is to listen to it.