Chris Willman Music WriterWhat do rock ‘n’ roll and rock journalism have in common? Out of many things, probably, one is that they were both once assumed to be ephemeral.
But if the prevalence of classic-rock stations and playlists over the decades has proved that rock ‘n’ roll really is here to stay, the reporting and criticism surrounding it tended to vanish into thin air, at least in the pre-Internet age (and often since, with so many media companies wantonly messing up or just losing their archives even after making their initial digital transitions).That’s where Rock’s Backpages comes in — to make sure Lester Bangs and his contemporaries and their work don’t survive as just strange, seemingly fictional references in a Cameron Crowe.
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