Robert Christgau Checks Out The Ramones
Excerpt from critic's forthcoming memoir telescopes back to CBGB.
Music critic Robert Christgau’s memoir comes out February 24. To whet the appetite, Rolling Stone has teased an excerpt one week ahead of the book’s release.
Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man covers Christgau’s life and career up to the mid-1980s, when he left his post as music editor of the Village Voice. The RS excerpt is anchored to the late 1970s. Here’s a taste:
I remembered a flyer I’d gotten from four geeks in leather jackets: “The Ramones are not an oldies group, they are not a glitter group, they don’t play boogie music and they don’t play the blues.
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