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Biography

Name: Greil Marcus
Birth Date: June 19, 1945
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Author, Critic

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"Greil Marcus has been America's foremost expert on the subject of pop music for over three decades," wrote Chris Nelson in Seattle Weekly Online. "Author of classics such as Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, he's made a career of uncovering and...


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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its...


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Greil Marcus (born 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music...


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The New York Observer
40 Years Ago-and Today-Dylan Asks, 'How Does it Feel?'
4/24/2005: 1,091 words, approx. 4 pages
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, by Greil Marcus, Public Affairs, 283 pages, $25.Greil Marcus, writing about Sam Cooke's posthumously released single "A Change Is Gonna Come," rightly called it "the greatest soul record ever made … a tender, terrifying prophecy of...
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The New York Observer
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of August 13th, 2007
8/7/2007: 440 words, approx. 2 pages
Justin Cartwright’s The Song Before It Is Sung (Bloomsbury, $24.95) is a many layered reimagining of the friendship between Isaiah Berlin and Adam von Trott, the “good German” who took part in von Stauffenberg’s bomb plot against Hitler. Although the novel is painfully uneven, its...
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The New York Observer
New Creem Retrospective Outrages Magazine's Alums
11/29/2007: 750 words, approx. 3 pages
"I think I'm mentioned in passing. Their entire description of what happened at the magazine is cockeyed," said the rock critic Dave Marsh last week. Mr. Marsh was speaking to The Observer about a new book, Creem: America's Only Rock n Roll Magazine, a...
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The New York Observer
Literary Heavyweights Take Swing: McEwan, Foer, Ishiguro, Gray
3/6/2005: 737 words, approx. 3 pages
'Tis the season for budding talent-just ask Jonathan Safran Foer, whose second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin), can't be far off and won't be quietly received: The adoring profile in the Feb. 27 New York Times Magazine raised the curtain on a...
 


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