Totally Wired

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A raucous yet reflective look back at the evolution of the music press and the passionate rock and pop journalists who defined the music of the 20th century. The Highs and Lows of the Music Press charts the coming of age of the music press, offering an oral history of the misfits and miscreants who described the wild landscape of the rise of Rock and its continual evolution from the 1950s to the 2000s, through the Summer of Love, Punk, Pop and R&B., Paul Gorman chronicles the emergence of trailblazing rock magazines in New York, LA and London and their transformation into essential reading for anyone who cared about popular culture. Gorman captures the extraordinary rise of the inkies on the back of Rock and Roll's explosion into the postwar American and British youth culture. He chronicles the development of individual magazines from their Tin Pan Alley beginnings to Creem, Blender and Crawdaddy! through the foundation of Rolling Stone and the underground press to the heyday of the NME, Melody Maker and Sounds, the emergence of dedicated monthlies such as Q, The Face and Mojo at a time when reading these magazines was mandatory for anyone with an eye on popular culture. Evoking the golden age of the music press, the book is illustrated with iconic magazine artwork in a colour-plates section and archival black-and-white photography in the text. Writers such as Charles Shaar Murray, Greil Marcus, Nick Kent and Tony Parsons not only wrote the stories behind the wild excesses of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who and The Clash but played an integral part in the development of the success of the bands themselves. Gorman also tackles the entrenched sexism and racism faced by women and people from marginalized backgrounds as they tried to make it in the music industry, whether as musicians or journalists.