In the book
When Rock Was Young, author
Bruce Pollock strings together magazine-type artist biographies into a historical narrative. Rock n' roll history is a well-tread topic but Pollack was among the best writers to cover it. Most of his prose here is pretty straight ahead but he has moments of true grandeur. This is one of them:
"Progenitors of the draft-dodging, pinko, student protestors, the pot-smoking, acid-swallowing, hippies yippies, and the free-love, back-to-nature, love-and-peace, organic, ban-the-bomb, dropout radicals, early folk singers could be found somewhere south of the Top 40 and east of Rock 'n' roll."
