Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s [Paperback]

Detroit is famous for its cars and its music. From the 1950s through the 1970s, Motor City fans experienced a golden age of rock and roll. Rock was the defiant voice of the boomer generation. The 1960s and the 1970s were turbulent decades. Blacks and women asserted themselves, breaking down the establishment. Rock music, and the spirit and events that defined it, advanced these interests. The war in Vietnam brought tension and national conflict. Drugs and a sexual revolution, made possible by the introduction of the birth control pill, added to the volatile mix. Woodstock, May Day protests, and the resignation of Pres. Richard Nixon were just a few of the upheavals that made these decades two of the most important in the nation???s history. Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s features 200 images, capturing local musicians who started in Detroit and then traveled the world, as well as world-famous acts who came to the city to perform. Intimate stories of musicians, bands, and other members of the rock community make this history a must for dedicated fans.Title: It's only rock and roll, but he loves it

Author: Wensdy Von Buskirk

Publisher: Observer & Eccentric

Date: 8/7/2008



Bob Harris is proud to be the oldest Rolling Stones fan in America, especially since the title was bestowed by Mick Jagger himself.



At 78, the Redford resident recently teamed up with attorney John Douglas Peters to publish Motor City Rock and Roll: The 1960s and 1970s (Arcadia Publishing, 2008, $19.99). The book, part of Arcadia's Images of America series, is a photographic account of musicians with ties to Detroit.



On its cover is a snapshot of a conservative Harris with The Rolling Stones when they visited Detroit on their second American tour in 1965. In 1999, Harris tracked the Stones down at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham to get the photo signed.



That's when Jagger gave Harris his prized nicknalÃ2