Just finished Soul Music - underwhelmed. Quite a few nice variations of song titles, but the villainy of the music business generally understated and likewise the deviousness of the MU. The record industry escaped unscathed - and nothing about music lawyers!

Only a smidgeon of "too fast to live, too young to die" makes it, as well, not to mention the culture wars endemic in music fashions.

What about the deathwish of the Ramones, the Sex Pistols (yes, I got "Anarchy in the UK" thanks, but that's such a microcosm), Jan and Dean, and the Doors (or was the Librarian Little Richard or Rick Wakeman?), - not to mention Iggy Pop (not dead yet)

I think there were really two books, maybe three, in there fighting for space - one about music as sociopathy, one about DEATH'S psychology, and another about the psychology of death.

Casting Curt Cobain as Buddy Holly seemed a bit odd, too.

And where were the fakes like Alice Cooper, Tiny Tim, and Marilyn Manson?