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Drugs and popular music have long been entertained in an extravagant but sombre association. In America, even before the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, the touring 'medicine shows' enjoyed a certain outlaw status - and by the twenties, the twin rise of jazz and marijuana had a strong scent of subversion and all the romantic appeal of suppressed culture.
Each development in music has brought with it a new fashion in drugs, though tragically, the heroes of one are so frequently the victims of the other. Harry Shapiro tells in detail the stories of the most famous - Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Jim Morrison, Keith Moon, Sid Vicious - and examines the disturbingly collusive relationship between two billion-dollar industries.
Soft cover, good condition.
