'Probably the most astute critic of American popular culture since Edmund Wilson.' (London Review of Books)

'Perhaps the finest book ever written about pop music.' (New Yorker)

'Probably the best book ever written about rock.' (Rolling Stone)

'The 1975 appearance of Greil Marcus's first book Mystery Train, was an explosion an unexpected and indelible as the first records Elvis Presley cut exactly twenty years before.' (Mark Rozzo LA Times)

'Gets as close to the heart and soul of America and American music as the best rock 'n' roll.' (Bruce Springsteen)

Greil Marcus was born in San Francisco in 1945. He is the author of Mystery Train, Invisible Republic, Lipstick Traces, Double Trouble and Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 and the editor of Lester Bangs's Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. In 1998 he curated the exhibition '1948' at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. He writes the Real Life Rock Top 10 column for The Believer and teaches at the New School in New York. He was described by John Rockwell in the New York Times as 'a writer of rare perception and a genuinely innovative thinker'.

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