John Swenson (–2022)
Auteur de The New Rolling Stone Record Guide
A propos de l'auteur
John Swenson has been a syndicated columnist for more than 20 years at UPI and Reuters, and he has been an editor for Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone, Offbeat, and other publications. He is the author of The Rolling Stone Jazz and Blues Album Guide; Stevie Wonder; and Bill Haley: The Daddy of Rock and afficher plus Roll. afficher moins
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Œuvres de John Swenson
Kiss; the Greatest Rock Show on Earth 1 exemplaire
The Allman Brothers Band: Dreams 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Contributeur — 167 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de décès
- 2022
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu du décès
- Brooklyn, New York
- Cause du décès
- cancer
- Professions
- journalist
- Courte biographie
- "John Swenson has been writing about popular music since 1967. He edited the award-winning website jazze.com for Knit Media and has worked as an editor at Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone, Circus, Rock World, OffBeat magazine and been published in virtually every popular music magazine of note over that time. ... In another role Swenson is a veteran sports writer who covered the New York Rangers for 30 years, writing pieces for outlets from Rolling Stone to the Associated Press."
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 266
- Popularité
- #86,736
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 23
Anyone acquainted with Lennon's story will know that he had many left field ideas, it is interesting to see how far he was ahead of the pack. Many of the views that he expressed would have (and did) sound wacky and far fetched then but, now we can see that he was often correct in his ideas as to where society was headed: when John was off kilter, however, the author is willing to be critical of his eponymous hero.
Swenson also takes time to examine Mark Chapman's (Lennon's killer) motivation and state of mind. His attempts to be fair, lead to the only section of the book which did not ring true to either his beliefs or, reality: sometimes life is just so odd that there is no justifying it. Despite this minor complaint, this is a well researched, well written book which I would recommend to anybody interested in Lennon, the Beatles or simply the story of a man ahead of his time.… (plus d'informations)