Books

Rush: Song by Song by Alex E. Body (Fonthill Media, $36.95)

“Even from their earliest days, the band developed and changed constantly, losing and gaining fans along the way – but famously retaining their integrity – always moving in the direction that they chose.”                                                                                           -Alex E. Body (from Rush: Song by Song, page 2)                If there was a research poll conducted to […]

Books

The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel (W.W. Norton & Company, $35.95)

“This is also an argument for progressive rock as a grand cultural detour that invented much of the music that’s popular now…’prog’s’ reputation has never quite recovered from a series of crises in 1977 and 1978.  Punk won over the critics, disco won over the teens, and major progressive bands deflated like punctured blimps.” -David […]