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Author:
Denise Sullivan
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978-0887331848
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088733184X
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Da Capo Press; First Edition edition (August 1, 1994)
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M's rise from an Athens, Georgia party-band to a politically active, world-renowned rock group who has influenced alternative bands for more than a decade.

This is the story of . M's rise from an Athens, Georgia party-band to a politically active, world-renowned rock group who has influenced alternative bands for more than a decade. Includes a complete discography, photo This is the story of . whose most recent album sold over 14 million copies-as told by friends of the band, fellow musicians, and music industry insiders.

Denise Sullivan is an American music journalist and historian who is the author of music biographies as well as the critically acclaimed music-history book, Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music from Blues to Hip-hop. Sullivan first began writing music. Sullivan first began writing music journalism for her high school newspaper in Cupertino, California while working as a record-store clerk. At the University of San Francisco, Sullivan became a founding staff member of radio station KUSF under the DJ name Marie London.

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This book was excellent. It was great to get a history of what went on by people who actually were there

M's rise from an Athens, Georgia party-band to a politically active, world-renowned rock group who has influenced alternative bands for more than a decade. Includes a complete discography, photos, and line drawings. This book was excellent. It was great to get a history of what went on by people who actually were there. Recommendwd if you are a fan of Mr. Stipe and Co. or just interested in a the history of great music that shaped a scene.

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Talk About the Passion is the fourth song on . s debut album Murmur and its second single. Michael Stipe has described the song as being about hunger, but its message was muddled in the popular view by lyrics that were seen by many as unclear. The music video attempted to right this by playing the song alongside footage of homeless people and warships, ending with the words In 1987, the cost of one destroyer-class warship was 910 million dollars. However, take a bit of time to try and parse the lyrics and the message is rather plain to see.

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Denise Sullivan, Author of .

Today, their dichotomous history remains fascinating-it's no wonder Matthew Greenwald chose to examine it up close. Denise Sullivan, Author of . Talk about the Passion, an Oral History and Rip It Up! Rock & Roll Rulebreakers. The passion and the joy the Mamas and Papas brought to their best music remains, a tangible thing, despite the circumstances of their downfall. I could listen to them forever, though their last two LPs are painful to the max, so skip those. Occasionally one will catch my eye particularly.

This history of the American musical group examines its members, provides interviews, and includes a discography
  • Very good oral history of this great band’s best years (ends basically in ‘91) and doesn’t exclude a few negative voices here and there.

  • If you are an REM fan, this book is brilliant reading. Sullivan's writing is impeccable.

  • This is an interesting book, in a sense. You get to know a lot about a time (1978-1996) and a place (Athens, Georgia), but not so much really about the ostensible subject matter. Nobody from REM, the band members or their manager and lawyer, were interviewed for the book, only excerpts from magazine interviews were used (of course one assumes that she tried to get them). So it's clear that they didn't cooperate, or allow their close associates to do so. This means most of the people who did get interviewed are no longer in the circle (if not all), and some of the bitterness is pretty evident. A lot of jabs at the music, and all of the band members had shots taken at them on a personal level. The "I was there when X happened" syndrome was in full play.

    It's not a bad book, and if you can get it cheaply enough on the secondary market, and are an REM fan, you should. But know what you're buying.

  • This is neither a "companion piece" nor a "tell-all" book. Equally, it is not a flimsy paperback stapled and glued together just in time for the band's next big tour. What Denise Sullivan does write (and write well, also) is much closer to an anecdote, a souveneir, a recalled event. She avoids the trite and passionless type of "rock'n'roll" review/expose we have to endure all the time and instead lets the reader get a glimpse not so much of the band REM, but of the people that REM exerted some influence on, or the people for whom REM mattered. Reading Sullivan's book, I am reminded of how one of my closest friends and I discuss REM -- from memory, from songs, from what has been happening in our lives. This book feels like a friend.

  • Unlike most "rock-n-roll" books which often pander to the lowest common denominator -- which usually is the author's own personal bias barely hidden in the text and most often the lens through which we are forced to watch the history of the band/singer unfold -- Denise Sullivan gives us something better, and frankly, more fun. "TATP" offers an original and fresh perspective on a very enigmatic yet familiar college - rock - alternative - mainstream - wacky - superstar band. This book is a must-have for both the fan and fanatic. The writing is well-done, the subject matter well-handled. While almost everyone's favorite REM song and/or album may change over time, this remains my favorite book on the band.

  • You can't get much better than this -- personal accounts of people who actually were there. There is just as much information to be found here as in _It Crawled from the South_. It proceeds chronologically with great detail, and feeds the REM-fact hungry reader just what he/she wants.

  • This book was excellent. It was great to get a history of what went on by people who actually were there.Recommendwd if you are a fan of Mr. Stipe and Co. or just interested in a the history of great music that shaped a scene.