THE WORLD OF ROCK
Including Dozens of Photos of Top Recording Stars and Groups by John Gabree
The people who buy rock records have a lot of money to spend (just look at how many of the top twenty albums on the charts are rock, and not just rock, but rock with pretensions of being “good” rock) and for many of them, their interest in the music goes far deeper than just something to listen to while driving to Ann Arbor.
There has almost from the beginning been a large market for publications dealing with rock — at first, fan magazines like 16, Go Magazine, and Rave, but now with Crawdaddy and Rolling Stone and Creem, the serious criticism of rock music has become a commercial reality. Now the time has come for books which at least have pretensions of presenting a serious analysis of rock music. But, pretensions are about all that The World of Rock has.