CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine

CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine
by Robert Matheu, Brian J. Bowe

CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine
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Author: Brian J. Bowe, Robert Matheu
Edition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-11-06
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Collins Living

Book Reviews of CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine

Book Review: A nice era reminder...
Summary: 5 Stars

Buy this book!!!
Yes, obviously things were quite different in the days
that this magazine was being published! The pictures and stories
depict a time where sex, drugs and rock and roll weren't a
catch phrase to sell a product, but a lifestyle, in whole or in part, embraced by most of those that were there.
It wasn't about guns, or hoe's, or bling or cribs.
And "keepin' it real" mean't absolutely NOTHING at all!
The pictures alone make this an outstanding addition to any memorabillia collection, and a great cofee table book. This is a look at how generations enjoyed fashion trends, and music "waves"to pick and choose what they liked as defining aspects of theirself and shared it with each other.
The underlying theme was "It's not wether you win or lose,
and its not how you play the game, because if your looking GOOD,
YOUR LOOKING GOOD!"
Nice hardcover, excellent photos, and quite a large book, this is a must have for those that lived it, or those curious if it ever really happened at all...

Summary of CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine

With raw photographs of rock's greatest stars and insightful prose by the legendary rock journalists who were stars in their own right, CREEM magazine stood at the forefront of youth counterculture from 1969 to 1988 as "America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine." A product of Detroit's revolutionary counterculture, CREEM cultivated an incredibly gifted staff of iconoclastic scribes, editors, photographers, and graphic artists whose work continues to resonate today, including: Lester Bangs, Dave Marsh, Richard Meltzer, Nick Tosches, and a not-so-famous Cameron Crowe. They invented a raucous new form of journalism, where the writing and photographs were as much an expression of rock 'n' roll as the music itself. CREEM embraced and abused the best and the worst of the era: MC5, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Faces, Lou Reed, the Stooges, T.Rex, Kiss, Mott the Hoople, the Who, the New York Dolls, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent, Aerosmith, the Ramones, Cheap Trick, the Clash, and Van Halen, among many others.

Now the Mouth of the Motor City presents a retrospective of the beautiful haze that was rock's golden age?from the end of the hippie days through glam and punk and into '80s metal. Featuring the best of the magazine's vast archives of photos, illustrations, and articles, CREEM is the authentic rock 'n' roll experience?written for fanatics by fanatics.

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