Articles by: Gordon Hauptfleisch

Almost Hits: The Kinks, “Waterloo Sunset” (1967)

Almost Hits: The Kinks, “Waterloo Sunset” (1967)

I would’ve thought there was enough of a melancholic beauty and universal appeal to the 1967 Kinks’ classic “Waterloo Sunset” that it would have transcended any Anglocentric provincialism You May Also Like: How the Kinks’ ‘Kronikles’ Put Their Towering Late-’60s Era in Perspective In Defense of the Kinks’ Often-Overlooked SophomoreRead More

Books: Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip, by Robert Landau (2013)

Books: Rock ‘n’ Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip, by Robert Landau (2013)

There’s something happening here … What it is clearly isn’t Burma-Shave, and it isn’t Wayne Newton at the Hollywood Bowl or Jerry Lewis in Las Vegas. You May Also Like: Rumble Strip – ‘Let’s Roll’ (2021) Richard Turgeon, “Sunset” (2020): One Track Mind ‘Leon Russell: The Master of Space andRead More

Pete Townshend, ‘Who I Am: A Memoir’: Books

Pete Townshend, ‘Who I Am: A Memoir’: Books

Perhaps he feels that he can’t explain, but Pete Townshend does a remarkably fine job with ‘Who I Am’ in revealing just who he is.

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Kicking and Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll (2012): Books

The heart of Heart has always been sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, “partners in creativity, business, and a force of two against the world.”

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Books: Please, Please Me, by Alex Hendler (2012)