Research Catalog

Title

Creem : America's only rock 'n' roll magazine / [Robert Matheu, Brian J. Bowe].

Author

Matheu, Robert

Publication

New York : Collins, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bowe, Brian J.

Description

271 p. : ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Summary

A retrospective of twenty years of rock-and-roll history as recorded by the popular genre magazine features more than 25,000 iconoclastic photographs, articles, and graphic artist illustrations.

Alternative Title

America's only rock 'n' roll magazine

Subjects

• Geschichte 1969-1988
• Periodicals
• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Rock music > History and criticism
• Rock music > Periodicals > History
• Creem (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History
• Periodicals

Note

• Statement of responsibility from cover.
• A collection of pieces from Creem magazine, with photographs of rock's pioneers.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword: Up Close and Personal / Paul Trynka -- Introduction: Let It Creem / Brian J. Bowe -- Cream: Au Revoir / Tony Reay -- Mc5: Welcome to Detroit / Pam Brent, John Sinclair and Dave Marsh -- Paul Mccartney: The Walrus Was Paul? / Deday LaRene -- Grand Funk Railroad . . . Or the Great Train Robbery / Debbie Burr -- The Michigan Scene Today! / Dave Marsh, Deday LaRene and Barry Kramer -- Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen / Dave Marsh -- A Creem Founding Father Remembers / Ric Siegel -- Todd Rundgren: Creem's Profiles -- Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels: Wheels on the Road / Barry Kramer -- J. Geils Band: Creem's Profiles -- J. Geils Band: Beantown Get-Down / Ben Edmonds -- Steve Marriott: Creem's Profiles -- Kiss: Creem's Profiles -- A Creem Editor Remembers / Dave DiMartino -- Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung / Lester Bangs -- Roxy Music: Creem's Profiles -- The Who: A Who Primer / Dave Marsh -- Alice Cooper's Alcohol Cookbook -- Free John and Yoko -- Mott the Hoople: Diary of a Rock Star / Ian Hunter -- Dave Edmunds: Creem's Profiles -- Cheech & Chong: Creem's Profiles -- A Creem Dreem Remembers / Bebe Buell -- Rod Stewart: Creem's Profiles -- T.Rex: "What They Tried to Do With Bowie Was Create Another Marc Bolan" / Cameron Crowe -- Screamin' Jay Hawkins: The "I Put a Spell on You" Man Reveals Why Voodoo Didn't -- & May Never Work / Nick Tosches -- The Cars: Creem's Profiles -- Androgyny in Rock: A Short Introduction (Plus the Androgyny Hall of Fame) -- Iggy and the Stooges: Take America by the Spleen / Esther and Lester -- New York Dolls: Greatest Hits Volume 1 / Ben Edmonds -- Jukebox Cruci-Fix / Patti Smith -- Faces: Rod Jumps Teams / Barbara Charone -- Faces: Faces Huddle for Defensive Play / Lester Bangs -- Grace Slick: Creem's Profiles -- Kiss: Reviews and Comix, Plus Unmasked! Exclusive Expose -- The Rolling Stones: Jaggernaut Wild Horse on a Plastic Phallus / Charles Bukowski -- Album Review: The Rolling Stones -- Exile on Main Street / Lester Bangs -- The Rolling Stones: Keith Richards -- The Pusher Behind the Stones / Barbara Charone -- Album Review: Ramones -- Ramones / Gene Sculatti -- Ramones: Creem's Profiles -- Aerosmith: Train Kept A-Rollin' / Lisa Robinson -- Led Zeppelin: One More for the Road / Jaan Uhelszki -- Runaways: These Bitches Suck and Rebuttal -- Keith Richards: Creem's Profiles -- Inside William S. Burroughs / Jeffrey Morgan -- Another Creem Editor Remembers / Jeffrey Morgan -- Red Kross: Creem's Profiles -- Sex Pistols: In the Promised Land / Patrick Goldstein -- Dead Boys: Tell No Tales / Richard Riegel -- The Clash: Rash Clash Mash in Motor City Bash / Dave DiMartino -- The Clash: Creem's Profiles -- A Creem Editor Remembers / Ivan Suvanjieff -- Iggy Pop: Soldier of the Dog Chow Apocalypse / Mark J. Norton -- Angus Young: Creem's Profiles -- Bob Seger: Bops Horizontally / Dave DiMartino -- Pretenders: Chrissie Don't Ya Talk So Loud / Susan Whitall -- The Damned: How (Not) to Shoot a Creem Profile / Robert Matheu -- Queen: The Secret History of Queen / Rick Johnson -- Plasmatics: 1984 Willbe a Little Early / Edouard Dauphin -- Blondie: Creem's Profiles -- Cheap Trick: Creem's Profiles -- Bruce Springsteen: Takes It to the River / Dave DiMartino -- Bob Dylan: More of an Outlaw Than You Ever Were? / Richard Reigel -- Devo: Creem's Profiles -- Duran Duran: Oh! You Pretty Things from Planet Earth / Toby Goldstein -- The Kinks: A Sad Kommentary / John Mendelssohn -- John Cougar: Pink Houses in the Midwest / Bill Holdship -- Go-Go's: Creem's Profiles -- Duets from Hell!: One Times One Equals Some Pair! / Rick Johnson -- Pink Floyd: Can I Have My Money Back? / Dave DiMartino -- David Lee Roth: And the Gleeby Shall Rock / Billy Altman -- Judas Priest: Leathered, Studded Dudes Or / Sylvie Simmons -- Replacements: Drinking (And Drinking Lots More) With the Replacements / Bill Holdship -- Replacements: Creem's Profiles -- The Cure: The Head on the Cure / Dave DiMartino -- Beastie Boys: Lay It Down, Clowns / Chuck Eddy -- Yet Another Creem Editor Remembers / Bill Holdship -- The George Harrison Interview / J. Kordosh -- Red Hot Chili Peppers: Creem's Profiles -- Was (Not Was): Creem's Profiles -- Johnny Cash: A Little Farther ... Down the Line / J. Kordosh -- Firehose: If'n You Don't Know by Now / Steve Peters -- Outro: Every Picture Tells a Story and I'm Sticking to Mine / Robert Matheu.

ISBN

• 9780061374562
• 0061374563

LCCN

^^2007062001

OCLC

• 123119895
• SCSB-11488833

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library