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9781610391993 | Public Affairs, October 30, 2012, cover price $17.99
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9781586489458 | Public Affairs, November 1, 2011, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: A fan from the moment the Doors’ first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967.
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9781455122066 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The best critic of popular culture in America considers the attraction of the Doors, which has endured despite the band's short life, sampling the lasting songs and legendary performances that made Jim Morrison and his band rock 'n' roll legends.
9781455122073 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2011), cover price $19.95
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9781455122059, titled "The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2011), cover price $49.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.
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9781455122042 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 1, 2011), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.
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9788496879515 | Italian edition edition (Independent Pub Group, December 1, 2011), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: On June 16, 1965, after more than 20 takes over two days, Bob Dylan and his band finally finished recording “Like a Rolling Stone,” a six and a half minute song that became, and would remain, one of the most influential compositions of modern pop music.
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9780312572914 | Updated edition (Picador USA, April 26, 2011), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A Special Edition with a New Introduction and an Updated DiscographyThis is Greil Marcus’s acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, which introduced a phrase that has become part of the culture: “the old, weird America.
9780312420437 | Picador USA, September 1, 2001, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A study of the Basement tapes, recordings made by Bob Dylan and the Band in Woodstock, New York, in 1967, analyzes this secret music never intended for release in terms of its place in contemporary music and in Dylan's career.
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9781586488215 | 1 edition (Public Affairs, April 6, 2010), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Van Morrison,” says Greil Marcus, remains a singer who can be compared to no other in the history of modern popular music.
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9781586489526 | Reprint edition (Public Affairs, April 5, 2011), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in full force to this day: sometimes entire songs, sometimes single words or even the guttural spaces between words that become musical events in themselves.
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9780943389424 | Slg Books, November 2, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin started covering rock shows for the paper shortly after the end of the Civil War.
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9781931885935 | Limited edition (Twin Palms Pub, October 31, 2010), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: For Now is the result of film-maker Michael Almereyda's year-long rummage through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of our seminal artists.
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9781586488314, titled "Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010" | Public Affairs, October 19, 2010, cover price $29.95 | also contains Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 | About this edition: The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan’s show at the University of Minnesotahis very first appearance at his alma materon election night 2008.
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9781586488314 | Public Affairs, October 19, 2010, cover price $29.95 | also contains Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus | About this edition: The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan’s show at the University of Minnesotahis very first appearance at his alma materon election night 2008.
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9780306817823 | 10 anv edition (Da Capo Pr, October 13, 2009), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Best Music Writing has faithfully collected the year’s most compelling writing on music for a decade now, so it’s appropriate this special edition be guest-edited by one of the best-known writers on music and popular culture, Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces, Mystery Train, Like a Rolling Stone, and other groundbreaking excursions into the very fabric of music, America, and beyond.
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9781590173060 | New York Review of Books, March 31, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels.
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9780300151633 | Yale Univ Pr, February 24, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This striking collection of photographs features nearly every important figure in the world of rock & roll, from Elvis to Eric Clapton, the Beatles to Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix to John Coltrane.
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9780452289185 | 5th edition (Plume, March 25, 2008), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Catch a train to the heart of rock ?
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9780374104382 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 5, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity “America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and escapes; its greatest testaments are made of portents and warnings, biblical allusions that lose all certainty in the American air.
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9780312426422 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, August 21, 2007), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A panoramic study of the American identity examines the nation's fable of self-invention, from the colonial period to the present day, arguing that the promise of America lies less and less in the political realm but more in the work of individual artists, writers, musicians, and others who strikingly dramatize the challenge the U.
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9780394508283 | Random House Inc, December 1, 1979, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The responses of twenty rock-and-roll writers, who tell what one rock-androll record album they would take to a desert island, are augmented by Marcus's selection of the best and most important singles and albums of the last twenty-five years
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9780306806827 | Da Capo Pr, March 21, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty other writers on rock—including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, Simon Frith, and Robert Christgau—a question: What one rock and roll album would you take to a desert island?
9780394738277 | Random House Inc, December 1, 1979, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The responses of twenty rock-and-roll writers, who tell what one rock-androll record album they would take to a desert island, are augmented by Marcus's selection of the best and most important singles and albums of the last twenty-five years
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9780306814853 | Da Capo Pr, July 9, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Featuring original contributions from today’s leading music critics, Marooned is a revealing snapshot of the current state of pop music criticism.
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9780306815324 | Da Capo Pr, July 9, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty writers on rock-including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, and Robert Christgau-a question: What one rock-and-roll album would you take to a desert island?
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9781842405055 | Chrome Dreams, January 1, 2007, cover price $12.00
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9781586482541 | Public Affairs, March 29, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Published for the fortieth anniversary of the recording of "Like a Rolling Stone", this is the definitive biography of the song that caught the questing spirit of its time and changed the rules of the possible in popular music overnight Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963.
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9781586483821 | Public Affairs, April 3, 2006, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Describes the cultural context and impact of the song 'Like a Rolling Stone,' examining its musical antecedents, the song's place in Dylan's career, the circumstances of its production, its lyrical and musical structure and meaning, and its treatment in the hands of other musicians.
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9780393059540 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 26, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A collection of writings and illustrations on the American ballad which treats it as an art form as well as an expressive reflection of history, in an anthology that features pieces by such contributors as Paul Muldoon, John Rockwell, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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9780393328257 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of writings and illustrations on the American ballad considers it as an art form as well as an expressive reflection of history, in an anthology that features pieces by such contributors as Paul Muldoon, John Rockwell, and Joyce Carol Oates.
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9781576871195 | Limited edition (Power House Books, September 1, 2002), cover price $350.00 | About this edition: “You are right John Cohen—Quasimoto was right.
9781576871072 | Power House Books, December 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: “You are right John Cohen—Quasimoto was right.
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9781576871713 | Power House Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: “You are right John Cohen—Quasimoto was right.
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9780851709314 | British Film Inst, September 26, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: As Greil Marcus reconstructs the drama, "The Manchurian Candidate" is a movie in which the director and actors were suddenly capable of anything, beyond any expectations.
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9780805065138 | Henry Holt & Co, September 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the similiarities shared by Elvis Presley and Bill Clinton, offering discussions on the nature of celebrity, personal reinvention, and culture.
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9780312420413 | 1 edition (Picador USA, September 1, 2001), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A renowned cultural observer offers an insightful exploration of the similarities shared by Elvis Presley and Bill Clinton, offering discussions of the nature of celebrity, personal reinvention, and culture and arguing that Presley and Clinton reflect deep trends in America.
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Chronicles the history of Atlantic Records from its origins in 1948 to the present day through essays from various rock journalists, interviews by famous artists--including Mick Jagger and Stevie Nicks--and full-color photos taken throughout the years.
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9781556708602 | Welcome Rain, July 1, 2001, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the history of Atlantic Records from its origins in 1948 to the present day through essays from various rock journalists, interviews by famous artists--including Mick Jagger and Stevie Nicks--and full-color photos taken throughout the years.
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