Joel Selvin, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-93675-6
Selvin ( Monterey Pop ) brings an astonishing amount of anecdotal detail to his history of the late 1960s and early '70s drug and musical scene of hippiedom's hippest city. ``The so-called Summer of Love left San Francisco a mess,'' he notes, but...
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Joel Selvin. Dey Street, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-244425-7
Fewer than four months after the amorphous idealism of the 1960s achieved its Woodstock apogee, the Altamont Free Music Festival destroyed and buried it; in this methodical history, music journalist Selvin (Red, cowritten with Sammy Hagar) provides...
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Joel Selvin, with Pamela Turley. Da Capo, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-306-90305-2
The San Francisco Chronicle’s pop music writer Selvin offers an exhaustive, warts-and-all story of how the Grateful Dead battled through the rough two decades following Jerry Garcia’s death. The narrative begins in 1995 with Garcia’s death and the...
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John Johnson Jr. and Joel Selvin with Dick Cami. St. Martin’s/ Dunne, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-58178-7
In the years just before a new dance called the Twist turned popular music around and created new audiences for rock and roll, Johnny Biello, famed mobster, bought a rundown club in midtown Manhattan as a front for his businesses, and put his son-in-
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Photographs by Jim Marshall, text by Joel Selvin. Insight, $50 (304p) ISBN 978-1-60887-363-0
This gorgeous collection of photographs (most of them black and white), by one of the pioneers of rock photography, documents the epicenter of the countercultural revolution: San Francisco's Haight District in the mid to late 1960s. Images of...
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Joel Selvin. Diversion, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-6357-6899-2
Music critic Selvin (Sly & the Family Stone) delivers a sensitive account of the life and legacy of Derek and the Dominos drummer Jim Gordon (1945–2023), who suffered from schizophrenia and murdered his mother in 1983. Once deemed the “greatest...
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