Greil Marcus
Born
in San Francisco, California, The United States
June 19, 1945
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
35 editions
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1989
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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
45 editions
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1975
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
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17 editions
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1997
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Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
23 editions
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2005
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
16 editions
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2014
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In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
15 editions
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1993
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The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
27 editions
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2011
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Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
3 editions
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published
2022
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Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus
21 editions
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2010
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When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison
19 editions
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2010
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“If you're lucky, at the right time you come across music that is not only "great," or interesting, or "incredible," or fun, but actually sustaining. Though some elusive but tangible process, a piece of music cuts through all defenses and makes sense of every fear and desire you bring to it. As it does so, it exposes all you've held back, and then makes sense of that, too. Though someone else is doing the talking, the experience is like a confession. Your emotions shoot out to crazy extremes; you feel both ennobled and unworthy, saved and damned. You hear that this is what life is all about, that this is what it is for. Yet it is this recognition itself that makes you understand that life can never be this good, this whole. With a clarity life denies for its own good reasons, you see places to which you can never get.”
― In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
― In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992
“Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil -- just like Captain Ahab in MOBY DICK!”
― Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
― Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
“Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fit it into their minds in all sorts of different ways.”
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