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From marijuana and jazz, through acid-rock and speed-fuelled punk, from crack-driven rap to Ecstasy and the dance generation, this is the definitive history of drugs and pop. It also features in-depth portraits of music's most famous drug addicts: from Charlie Parker to Sid Vicious to Jim Morrison to Kurt Cobain. Chosen by the BBC as one of the Top Twenty Music Books of All Time. "Wise and witty."-"The Guardian"Shapiro, Harry is the author of 'Waiting for the Man: The Story of Drugs and Popular Music - Harry Shapiro - Hardcover - 1st U.S. ed' with ISBN 9780688089610 and ISBN 0688089615.
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