EAN: 9781472157669

STEIN CHRIS UNDER A ROCK

'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' - from the foreword by Debbie Harry   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.  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.   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.

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