Nik Cohn

Prólogo de Kiko Amat La esperada reedición, tras más de dos décadas descatalogado, de una de las obras monumentales del pop enérgico y el rock and roll en su momento más dulce y salvaje escrito por e

Passi el que passi, no ho podré controlar. Sons descoberts, aleatoris. Música que m’atrapa sense avisar, que se m’emporta en un viatge que no havia previst.

Eddie is a strange man with an extraordinary talent that makes him the performer he is. Eddie administers Death. His subjects, he explains, are not afraid, but are thrilled and transported. To Eddie, Death is completion, and he finds fulfilment, satisfaction, and pride in each job he carries out.When Seaton Carew, Americas most successful TV entrepreneur, chances to witness Eddie in action, Eddies career is altered. Overcoming many obstacles, he and Seaton literally ride to glory on the Deliverance Special, a train carrying King Death and his huge entourage all over America. But then a disturbing change comes over Eddie and threatens to topple him from his grisly throne...Part nightmare, part modern fairytale, Nik Cohn has written a bizarre fable for our time. In a cool and highly original style Cohn captures its sickness and horror yet stays true to its grandeur and allure.

The book to read if you want to get some idea of the original primal energy of pop music.Nik Cohn: A Derry boy who became the omnipresent man in musics developing story from the 50s to the present; a self-styled rat, addicted to adventure, a rock legend, forever at the heart of the real action.This memoir provides a strong flavour of the person whose writing inspired Saturday Night Fever and several other pop-culture landmarks. Cohn leads us, in reverse order, through the decades of his musical life and times, meeting familiar heroes and rogues - let readers decide the categories to which Hendrix, Moon, Proby, Vicious et al belong.The Noise From The Streets is elegiac, charming and thoughtful - wallow in it.Nik Cohn recently headed Jarvis Cockers top 10 music books in The Guardian (13 June 2014) for his title Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom.The original title for this book was Pop from the Beginning and that pretty much sums it up. Nik Cohn was only just out of his teens when he wrote it and its the book to read if you want to get some idea of the original primal energy of pop music. Loads of unfounded, biased assertions that almost always turn out to be right. He went on to provide the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever (Hurrah!) and Tommy (Boo!), but this is still his best book. Absolutely essential.

Despite persistent rumours of his death fifteen years ago, Johnny Angelos legend continues.Johnny Angelo is a rock singer, and this is his story from the beginning. As a child he is a dreamer and a solitary, a thief, a killer of birds and cats. As a man he is a god to his fans, an emperor to his cronies, a hoodlum to his enemies. Girls lie at his feet. He becomes rich. He commits murder. At the end, police shoot him down in the street.In a cool and highly original style Nik Cohn has written a bizarre fable for our time, capturing its sickness and horror yet staying true to its grandeur and allure. I Am Still The Greatest Says Johnny Angelo is Nik Cohns hymn to rock as myth, in all its crazed, absurd and glorious excess.Partly based on the legendary rocker, P J Proby, Johnny Angelo is the pop star to end all pop stars - narcissistic, mock-heroic and massively destructive. The novel follows his progress from warped infancy to final messianic explosion. A top read, which David Bowie once claimed inspired Ziggy Stardust.