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Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley?: The Stars Who Made Us Rock and Where They Are Now Subsequent Edition
Author(s): Edward Kiersh (Author)
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Date: August 19, 1986
- Edition: Subsequent
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 038519448X
- ISBN-13: 9780385194488
Book Description
From the jumping rock and blues joints of the 1950s to Woodstock and beyond, Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley? takes a close look at forty-seven musicians whose unique contributions to their thrilling era will never be forgotten. For as we sang their songs, we also preserved a piece of our own personal history along with each tune. But where are they now? How do they feel about their success? How have their lives changed?
Now, in this fun-filled, candid, and compelling collection of interviews, acclaimed journalist and author Edward Kiersh talks with each musician, reconstructing their triumphs and defeats, the road to gold and the path to obscurity. Here are the victories over incredible odds, and the struggles with drugs and booze and runaway fame—a fame that, in some cases, ran completely out of steam. But always, the humor, the idealism, the optimism that is the underlying key to success in the music business, as well as in life, shines through. Packed with fabulous photos, Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley? takes readers on a vivid, intoxicating nostalgia trip, giving us an important part of our musical past from the lips of the men and women who made it history.
Now, in this fun-filled, candid, and compelling collection of interviews, acclaimed journalist and author Edward Kiersh talks with each musician, reconstructing their triumphs and defeats, the road to gold and the path to obscurity. Here are the victories over incredible odds, and the struggles with drugs and booze and runaway fame—a fame that, in some cases, ran completely out of steam. But always, the humor, the idealism, the optimism that is the underlying key to success in the music business, as well as in life, shines through. Packed with fabulous photos, Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley? takes readers on a vivid, intoxicating nostalgia trip, giving us an important part of our musical past from the lips of the men and women who made it history.
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Whatever happened to all those early heroes of rock & roll? Here are the tales of 47, mostly pop figures from the Sixties: the likes of Fabian, Chubby Checker, Dave Clark, Phoebe Snow, Donovan, Alice Cooper, Manfred Mann. Short chapters on each performer combine recent photos, career sketches, and some wonderfully revealing interviews. A common theme is that success was problematical. Yet these were survivors, so stories of drug abuse, money woes, and mental distress are combined with reports of adjustments made, whether through psychotherapy, spiritual rebirth, the help of friends, or self-discipline. Kiersh, author of the sports-oriented Where Have You Gone, Vince DiMaggio? , scores well again with this lively exercise in nostalgia. Paul G. Freehan, Univ. of Miami Lib., Coral Gables, Fla.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Edward Kiersh, editor of Golf Course Register and the golf features editor for Sport magazine, has written extensively about collectibles. As a special correspondent for Cigar Aficionado magazine, he wrote about high-priced original manuscripts and autographs. For Cigar, he covered coins, stamps, and cameras. The author of Where Have You Gone, Vince DiMaggio? and Instant Expert: Collecting Pens, he lives in Westport, Connecticut.
