Musician,
photographer, storyteller, and longtime partner to Debbie Harry, Chris
Stein defined the sound of an era, catapulting the icon band Blondie to
#1 and selling over 20 million copies of Parallel Lines.
From the foreword by Debbie Harry: Sometimes fate deals up a wild card.
There's a lot to be said for one of these wild cards and from what I've
learned over the fifty or so years of our friendship, Chris is a card
from the unexpected deck.
In this
no-holds-barred autobiography, Stein reveals himself-this time not in
songwriting or photography, which he's previously been known for, but in
words. From a Brooklyn boyhood, a move across the river to the gritty
and fecund East Village in the late 1970s allowed Stein to tap the
explosive creativity that defined the era in the city. It was a time
when David Bowie and the Ramones were also making music, when Andy
Warhol was still alive and promoting Jean-Michel Basquiat's work, when
cool was defined not by where you came from but by what you could
contribute to culture.
Definitely "Under A Rock" is a plunge into that vanished
time period, and into the moments that turned the fresh sound and new
look of punk and new wave into a giant artistic and commercial
sensation. Stein takes us there in this revelatory, propulsive,
distinctive memoir.
Title: Under A Rock
Author: Chris Stein
Pages: 304, Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin Press
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