Great pop things : the real history of rock and roll from Elvis to Oasis

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Label

Great pop things : the real history of rock and roll from Elvis to Oasis

Title remainder

the real history of rock and roll from Elvis to Oasis

Creator

• Morton, Colin B

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Rock musicians -- Caricatures and cartoons
• Electronic books
• Rock music -- Comic books, strips, etc

Genre

• Comic books, strips, etc
• Caricatures and cartoons

Language

eng

Summary

The comic strips of Colin B. Morton and Chuck Death deliver an irreverent, heartfelt, and devastatingly funny history of rock and roll. Like Monty Python at its best, their version is surreal and ridiculous - yet somehow everything in it rings true. According to Morton and Death, the bass player in Led Zeppelin was Jean-Paul Sartre. And despite having been able to think up brilliant titles for their first three albums, Led Zeppelin were stuck for what to call the fourth one - so they put a load of prunes on the front. In strip after strip, Morton & Death pinpoint the absurdities and oddities of rock history. In the process, they often come closer to its truth than conventional accounts do, as well as being far more entertaining. As for the drawings, their caricatures of rock stars from Mick Jagger to Frank Zappa, Johnny Rotten to Courtney Love, are in themselves worth the price of admission

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

741.5942

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult