Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past classic rock Also contains the best-known interview

Also contains the best-known interview with John Coltrane -- recorded in 1966

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history

insightful and endlessly engaging

impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past classic rock Also contains the best-known interviewAuthor: Simon Reynolds One of The Telegraph''s Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been