Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past classic rock The first is the memoir

The first is the memoir Prince was writing before his tragic death

A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music

Also contains the best-known interview with John Coltrane -- recorded in 1966

and of the struggles he experienced with his own creation at the height of his fame

that we come to see Charlie Parker in the context of his time and place in America

Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past classic rock The first is the memoirAuthor: Simon Reynolds One of The Telegraph''s Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of culturalecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been