Dave Marsh

"The Beatles' Second Album runs only 22 minutes, with just 11 songs - many of which the group didn't write. Despite that, the album personifies the Beatles - the world's greatest rock'n'roll band, according to rock'n'roll critic and author Dave Marsh. With its overload of rock'n'roll, R & B, and early soul influence, including "Roll Over Beethoven," and "Long Tall Sally," The Beatles' Second Album offers a great vantage point from which to see the group's enormous impact on pop music and culture. Marsh breaks new ground by focusing on the Beatles' US recordings and how they evolved from British releases at a time when the two nations' approaches to rock'n'roll production were vastly different."--Jacket.

"Authorized by Springsteen and written by his biographer Dave Marsh, Bruce Springsteen on Tour is an intimate look at the touring life of one of America's most beloved musicians. Author of the bestsellers Born to Run and Glory Days, Marsh takes us from Bruce's first concert at the Woodhaven Swim Club in Freehold, New Jersey, all the way to his sold-out 2005 Devils & Dust tour." "Seeing Bruce live is an incredible experience for any fan, but sometimes an impossible one. The photographs and artifacts here, along with Marsh's extraordinary behind-the-scenes account, offer the closest thing possible to actually being there. Marsh communicates the exuberance of the music, shows how songs evolve night after night throughout a tour until they take the form we know today, and, most importantly, brings Bruce's immense persona to life on the page. While following Bruce's career, Marsh also illuminates rock's progression from the grubby, amateurish venues of the late 1960s to the giant arenas and intense professionalism of today. Bruce Springsteen on Tour is an amazing, three-decade celebration of one of the greatest live performers of all time."--Jacket.

"In The Heart of Rock & Soul, veteran rock critic Dave Marsh offers a polemical guide to the 1,001 greatest rock and soul singles ever made, encompassing rock, metal, R&B, disco, folk, funk, punk, reggae, rap, soul, country, and any other music that has made a difference over the past fifty years. The illuminating essays - complete with music history, social commentary, and personal appraisals - double as a mini-history of popular music. Here you will find singles by artists as wide-ranging as Aretha Franklin, George Jones, Roy Orbison, the Sex Pistols, Madonna, Run-D.M.C., and Van Halen. Featuring a new preface that covers the hits - and misses - of the '90s, The Heart of Rock & Soul remains as provocative, passionate, and timeless as the music it praises."--BOOK JACKET.

Bruce Springsteen Like a Killer in the Sun, originally published in Italian, is the definitive book on the work of Bruce Springsteen, showing his unique narrative talent and offering an accurate critical examination of his poetics. It presents 117 among his best lyrics, expounded and annotated with the philological care used for the classics of literature. In his introduction, Leonardo Colombati draws the attention to the fact that Springsteen is an author grafted on the line that goes from Whitman to Steinbeck, from Flannery O'Connor to Raymond Carver. The book also contains Springsteen's biography and discography, plus an exclusive interview with Bruce Springsteen. With forewords by Academy Award-winner Ennio Morricone and music critic Dave Marsh, a committee member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Springsteen's biographer.