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Most of the gaudy aspects of our future-shocked world—the sexuality, the titillation of forbidden pleasures, the triumph of money over taste, the fascination with travel —are seen in their harshest light on a rock-and-roll tour by a giant band.
To experience this phenomenon firsthand, Bob Greene, the prodigious 27-year-old columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, joined the infamous Alice Cooper band in the winter of 1973 as a performing member of their Holiday Tour stage show.
From the inside, and with an uncanny eye for the wild comedy, the surprising pathos and the rambunctious drama of the spectacle, Mr. Greene draws the reader into the middle of an incredible world: a world of marathon recording sessions in New York studios, of dope and liquor and lavish hotel suites and thousands of fans screaming your name and nocturnal raps on the door from teen-age girls who adore you; a world of charter flights on luxurious private jets, of conniving and cruelty and planned outrage. All the while, we are moved to share Mr. Greene’s divided feelings of guilt and elation, repulsion and camaraderie, as he becomes an intimate and confidant of the band, and his sense of pride as he masters his role on stage—that of Santa Claus, whom the band beats and stomps to death as a finale.
Rock-and-roll stardom is the most modern of success stories, and Mr. Greene demonstrates convincingly that the Alice Cooper band is the most significant and revealing success of all.
ISBN ISBN 0-689-10616-5
Scanned from 1974 paperback. Some corrections made. MZU 2021The list of books you might like
