Flashbacks

Flashbacks is an eyewitness account of '60s rock as it was being made. Michael Lydon-the first editor of Rolling Stone and a participant in the rock revolution-enjoyed unique access to the people and events when rock was new. His profiles of the founding fathers and mothers of '60s rock are unique in that they are based on first-hand interviews and on-the-spot reporting. This collection includes the first piece written on the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 (written only 48 hours after the festival, and never before published); an account of the Rolling Stones's U.S. tour of December 1969; Janis Joplin's dramatic rise and equally dramatic fall; The Grateful Dead at home in their communal house in San Francisco and on stage at Winterland; and much more. For anyone who lived through the turbulent late '60s and early '70s, this book will undoubtedly bring back memories; for those less fortunate, it describes a time when musicians really thought they could "change the world" and achieving pop success meant more than just lining your pockets. An important document of a time in American culture when anything seemed possible, Flashbacks is both an engrossing history and a series of stunning portraits of the men and women who changed pop music-and American life-forever.