rock-and-roll
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The finest rock-and-roll biographies are defined by their capacity for losing the reader inside the music.
From Salon • Jun. 16, 2025
“It was 24 hours a day of worrying, trying to keep the creeps away. Fame and money in rock-and-roll — it’s all a very dangerous area to live in.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025
At the time, the magazine agreed to credit photographer Goldsmith, known for portraits of rock-and-roll stars including Mick Jagger, and paid her $400 to license her 1981 black-and-white portrait as an artist reference.
From BBC • May 18, 2023
“I somehow knew we’d make a rock-and-roll king-and-queen combo,” he wrote of his marriage to Linda, “even if the roles were a little confused.”
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023
I had to speak loudly to make him hear me above the shouts and the amplified wails of jukebox rock-and-roll music.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
