Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the SixtiesMichael Dear
It had been an unusual journey, from eavesdropping on Minister Moon from Magical Cooperation, to the battle to save Rosa the mischievous pomeranian, to the sinister wizard with his bone pipe, to frightened children, humiliated goblins, odd messages and attacks in the dark. The intriguing people ...
Quiet Riot'sMetal Healthbecame the first metal album to top the Billboard200, unseating the Police'sSynchronicityin late 1983 and going on to sell more than 6 million copies in the United States. The rest of the album can't match the epic heights of its singles, but the ...
“At one point in his career,” Traum continues, “Dave would surely have liked to become famous, but he lived his life and made his music on his own terms an settled reluctantly for being a ‘legend.’ The irony is that none of his peers, no matter how commercially successful ...
’‘Come on home’ describes her desire to pursue music dreams in LA despite her family calling her back: “Hey babe, won’t you come on home, everyone’s wondering what you’re looking for’…“How can you ask me again you know the fire I feel in my heart, I don’t fit inside...
Ronettes for their induction; I don’t know who the chick on stage right is, but she’s clearly a few decades too young to be an original Ronette. Ronnie’s there, though, and I suspect that’s all that really matters. She lacks the same range she had in the Sixties – who doesn...
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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. By Mike Davis and Jon Wiener. New York: Verso, 2020. 788 Pages. Hardcover $34.95.Alcázar, Magally Miranda A.Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixtiesdoi:10.1111/1468-229X.13230GAY rights movementACTIVISMSTUDENT activismThe Los Angeles that Davis and Wiener forensically detail was a city of contradiction, division and segregation. In I Set the Night on Fire i , Mike Davis and Jon Wiener...
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