A book about 1960s rock and roll was dismissed for sensationalism and slut-shaming, but it's actually a crucial historical document. It shows how central rock music was to the era and how deeply English sounds shaped global culture in ways we still underestimate.
The writing is so extraordinary. And it's like, I think that there was a lot of slut-shaming when the book came out. Like, there was a lot of like lurid interest in this book about somebody's sex life. But it's really so much more. I mean, it's about a period of time. It's a really historical document of the '60s and how much rock and roll ruled then. I mean, I don't think that even now we have an understanding of how important music was then, how important music was to the culture, how much these sounds that were coming, especially from England, Mm-hmm. We're affecting everyone.
