The death of rock 'n' roll : untimely demises, morbid preoccupations, and premature forecasts of doom in pop music / Jeff Pike.

Author/creator Pike, Jeff
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Faber and Faber, ©1993.
Descriptionxvii, 289 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Rock music--History and criticism.
Rock musicians--Death.
Death in music.

Contents Hellhound on his trail -- Tombstone blues -- Faces of death 1: Tuberculosis -- Country corpses -- Faces of death 2: Pneumonia -- Twitch and shout: rhythm and blues deaths -- The ghost of Johnny Ace -- Faces of death 3: Meet John Death -- Death's ululating maw: vocal group deaths -- Faces of death 4: Heart troubles -- Blow, big man -- Faces of death 5: Respiratory failure and lung cancer -- Necro-Orleans -- Faces of death 6: Brain tumors -- Jerry Lee Lewis: Apocalypse now -- Faces of death 7: At another's hand -- The big Elvis -- Little Elvis deaths -- Faces of death 8: Pills -- The day the music died: the first death of rock 'n' roll -- Faces of death 9: In the air -- Just us dead folk -- Faces of death 10: Cancer -- Oozing crooners -- Faces of death 11: Organ failure -- Imps from hell -- Faces of death 12: Hangings -- Bustin' glass and the pompadour: James Dean's enduring moment of death -- Faces of death 13: On the highways and byways -- Pop anxiety: "Sally, go 'round the roses" -- Last laughs: Novelty artists -- Da doo Ron death -- Faces of death 14: Fell down -- The Motown morgue -- Faces of death 15: Alcohol-related -- Transatlantic tombstone blues -- Beatles bugouts -- Faces of death 16: Deaths accompanied by public outpourings of emotion -- Gathering moss with the Rolling Stones -- Who's dead -- Souls -- Faces of death 17: Famous dates in rock 'n' roll death -- Paramilitary pop -- Faces of death 18: Heroin -- The death wish as ethic: Lou Reed -- The death wish as fetish: Leonard Cohen -- The death wish as gesture: Iggy Pop's small still voice -- Friends: Charles Manson and Dennis Wilson -- Sha Na Na, Inc.: the second death of rock 'n' roll -- Faces of death 19: Death at three early ages -- Jim Morrison's beautiful friend -- Guitar heroes -- Faces of death 20: Gunshot suicides -- Drummed out -- Super dead -- Alice Cooper's cheese theater of cruelty -- Faces of death 21: Miscellaneous violence -- Death lite -- Sideshow radio -- Hustled: disco deaths -- Faces of death 22: AIDS -- Death inna Babylon -- Faces of death 23: Diseases with proper names -- The Grateful Dead's long, strange spinal tap trip -- Stob your sobbing -- I wanna destroy: the final death of rock 'n' roll -- Munching the corpse: the utter assurance of death's future.
Abstract Rock has had a strange affinity with death ever since bluesman Robert Johnson allegedly made a pact with the devil in the 1930s. The author explores the death-rock connection from the poisoning of Johnson in 1938 to the early 1990's. Includes stories of Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, and others.
LCCN 93012040
ISBN0571198082 (paper) :

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