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	Salon.com Books \| "Rock 'Til You Drop" by John Strausbaugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rock radio is full of bands like Limp Bizkit, Staind, Slipknot and Linkin Park, bands who look as though they'll have the shelf life of a watermelon and seem just about as important.
		The funny thing about the rock journalists who wrote about the "revolution" in the late '60s is that they are, by and large, the same guys writing the RZA and Björk reviews in the mainstream media today.
		The Rock Hall, Strausbaugh claims, props up the theory that the best rock is the rock that sells the most records and fills the most arenas; it is the rock that has been ordained by boomers like Wenner and recording industry mogul David Geffen as the most important or relevant to our lives.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/08/22/rock/print.html (1012 words)

	The Stranger - Books - Feature - Adult Anarchy
		The premise is expressed early and pithily: "Rock is youth music." Therefore, it follows (or implies) that the old-timers should take their last bows, exit stage left, and not let the door hit them in the ass on the way out.
		The reason for punk rock's popularity was that it ran counter to the dry rock scene of the late '70s.
		He says that aging rock critics should call it quits rather than poison the well with phony nostalgia for "the golden years." And that, ladies and gents, is my kind of anarchy.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=8787 (660 words)

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		Rock is different than blues and jazz, and if dignified old fl people, or even dignified old white people, want to sit on stools and jam the traditional musics of America, what the heck.
		Rock, we might say, is a traditional craft of our culture, like a style of pottery or woodworking.
		Rock is the continuation and development of a style that is African-American in origin, but that has spread through white Americans, white Europeans people, and now the whole world.
	www.crispinsartwell.com /books/strausbaugh.htm (1599 words)

	Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia by John Strausbaugh \| PopMatters Book Review
		Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia by John Strausbaugh
		One of the paradoxes of rock & roll is that its demise has been announced with the dependable regularity of a 4/4 beat ever since the genre emerged in the midst of the tranquilized nineteen-fifties.
		Strausbaugh may well be correct that "rock is youth music," but dismissing adulthood as a futile battle with the forces of gravity and mediocrity smacks of a kind of Peter Pan-like infatuation with the untested accomplishments of the current Generation Y. The vision of musical history contained in Rock 'Till You Drop is equally short-sighted.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/r/rock-til-you-drop.shtml (1771 words)

	Las Vegas Weekly: Art & Lit, Can old people still rock? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Or, as one passage goes: "Rock simply should not be played by 55-year-old men with triple chins wearing bad wighats, pretending still to be excited about playing songs they wrote 30 or 35 years ago and have played some thousands of times since.
		And he finds rock alive and well as practiced by such bands as The Donnas, The Go, Sleater-Kinney, Zen Guerrilla, the Dropkick Murphys and other groups that operate almost "underground," or at least outside the arena dominated by corporate pop.
		In a way, rock musicians are starting to do what blues, country and folk performers have always done: perform their music as long as the spirit still burns inside them and fans want to hear it.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /2001_2/11_15/art_lit.html (700 words)

	Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia - John Strausbaugh
		Rock And The Pop Narcotic, a brilliant sack-beating of everything hollow and false in the music industry, particularly the efforts of the so-called “rock press” to deceive the music’s audience, to sell watered-down pablum in place of the Real Thing he was convinced people really wanted.
		Rock ’Til You Drop is more than an exercise in beating up the elderly, though (as much fun as that is) Strausbaugh admits he himself is too old to be bothering himself with rock’n’roll, since he rather militantly puts the cutoff point at, effectively, nineteen.
		Its central tenet (rock is kids’ music, so have some self-respect and siddown, Grampa) is undeniable, but aesthetics are such a willfully blind zone that nobody is going to admit openly that Their Favorite Band has lost it.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/RockTilYouDrop.htm (705 words)

	Music.com \|\|\| Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rock and Roll is often used as a generic term, but its sound is rarely predictable.
		From the outset, when the early rockers merged country and blues, rock has been defined by its energy, rebellion and catchy hooks, but as the genre aged, it began to shed those very characteristics, placing equal emphasis on craftmanship and pushing the boundaries of the music.
		For most of its life, rock has been fragmented, spinning off new styles and variations every few years, from Brill Building Pop and heavy metal to dance-pop and grunge.
	www.music.com /genre/rock/1 (329 words)

	Rock On, Geezer! - In defense of 50-year-old pop stars. By Mark Jenkins
		Rock 'Til You Drop deplores rock's "decline from rebellion to nostalgia," yet one of its most striking characteristics is its own nostalgia for '60s extremism.
		Rock is "youth music," he asserts, and rockers who insist on emulating their lithe '60s selves—the Rolling Stones are Exhibit A—just look silly.
		Rock's shock of the new is largely gone, and rules like "don't trust anyone over 30" have been suspended.
	www.slate.com /id/114363 (1371 words)

	Rock 'Til You Drop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Benefits of zealous rocking for residents suffering from dementia include emotional well-being and an improved sense of balance.
		Patients who rock incessantly even tend to request less medication to ease their daily aches and pains.
		For as studies there have shown, residents who rock around the clock are both happier and healthier.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/19980324164433data_trunc_sys.shtml (474 words)

	Rock Til You Drop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In the 1960s and early 70s rock and rebellion went arm in arm.
		Yet thirty years later, many of the icons of rock and roll’s angry childhood are not only still alive but are, contends John Strausbaugh, grotesquely still on stage limping through old standards that have lost all edge and meaning.
		As the Rolling Stones drag themselves through yet another American tour, Cher once again makes a come-back, and Yes play gambling resorts, Strausbaugh reflects acidly on a generation that started out as self-anointed world-changers and ended up as short-changers of the ideals that were the genesis of their art.
	www.versobooks.com /books/nopqrs/s-titles/strausbaugh_rock.shtml (275 words)

	Powell's Books - Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia by John Strausbaugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia
		Intemperate and savvy, he rails at the timidity of Rolling Stone's hipster capitalism, the sterility of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the appalling prospect of the Stones heading out on the road again after live appearances that were dubbed the 'Steel Wheelchairs' tour.
		Strausbaugh reflects acidly on a generation that started out as self-anointed world changers and ended up as short-changers of the ideals that were the genesis of their art.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-1859846297-1 (315 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Rock 'Til You Drop" by John Strausbaugh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The only thing resembling a mainstream rock revolution we've had in the last 30 years are punk's brief flirtation with fame in the late '70s and the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't "grunge" movement of the early '90s that was largely a Black Sabbath rip-off anyway.
		The rock of the '60s gave voice to the emerging youth culture just as much as it churned out kick-ass tunes you could dance to.
		Homo confidential From flmail to fake marriages, Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson led strange double lives as '50s heartthrobs who were secretly gay.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2001/08/22/rock (630 words)

	Rock 'Til You Drop at Chief Ike's (washingtonpost.com)
		Rock 'Til You Drop at Chief Ike's (washingtonpost.com)
		Alternative and punk rock are the show's axis, but there are nuances: Gist's almost folky emphasis on vocal storytelling; Los Hermanos' edgy, Clash-influenced power pop; and Rockmaster General's melodic punk.
		Staff members (including the Gist guys) are clearly music fanatics, ready to recommend new albums and bands at the drop of a trucker cap, and the selection of "staff picks" at the front is worth a visit.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A60129-2004Jan29¬Found=true (1385 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Rock Bottom (November 7 - November 13, 2002)
		It's a rock 'n' roll dictum, one that the Rolling Stones have been sleepwalking through for decades.
		In their case, a popular opening act always tags along--usually someone who can't remember where they were when JFK was killed, in hopes of getting the kids to come out.
		To Strausbaugh, the Stones are not "the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world," as they first boasted in 1969, but rather they are the Board of Directors of Rolling Stones Inc. And--just like the executives at the Gap--every move they make is a calculated, market-tested bid at the bottom line.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2002-11-07/book.html (652 words)

	Rock 'Til You Drop - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rock's 'heritage acts' are still the biggest concert draws.
		But on most oldster tours, sex and drugs—though not rock and roll—have been replaced by yoga, Pilates and soy milk, as well as a more forgiving schedule: two nights on, one night off.
		And let's not even talk about rock's all-time legendary bad boy, Keith Richards, 60, who still...
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5569168/site/newsweek (1132 words)

	Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Amazon.fr : Livres en anglais: Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia
		Its prime audience should not be middle-aged, balding, jelly-bellied dads." Calling rock a music of "youthful energies, youthful rebellion, youthful anxieties and anger," Strausbaugh says, "Colostomy rock is...
		And nostalgia is the death of rock." He skewers some easy targets: the Rolling Stones' "Steel Wheelchairs tour...
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/1859846297 (496 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rock Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia by John Strausbaugh in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
		Rock and roll as ancient history, geared towards the useless tastes of Wenner and co. Having been there, I agree completely with what he says here.
		I have myself always felt that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was the death knell for the joy and rebellion that rock music had inspired and promoted, and I've always been surprised that so many bands and performers that I otherwise held in esteem would buy in wholesale to such crassly commercial venture.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1859846297?v=glance (2686 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com \| Music \| Rock Til You Drop: The Decline From Rebellion to Nostalgia \| 2001-07-26
		Rock Til You Drop: The Decline From Rebellion to Nostalgia
		At that, the crowd, just moments before solidly on Burdon's side, backed away and retreated to the bar and its inviting Cheddar cubes, leaving the bard of Newcastle to howl out his anguish in private.
		Still, Strausbaugh is right to indict what he calls "colostomy rock," the unholy music of the undead, which tends to subvert the business of adaptation, natural selection and evolution.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /Issues/2001-07-26/music/reviews.html (335 words)

	NEW ROCK ORDER
		Just a few months later they would recruit Joe Elliott, a big fan of Mott the Hoople and they would call themselves Atomic mass and later changed their name to Def Leppard.
		Following the release of "Getcha Rocks Off", Rick Allen was added as the bands permanent drummer.
		During the recording of the bands follow-up in 1991 Steve Clark died of an overdose of alchohol and drugs.
	groups.msn.com /NEWROCKORDER/defleppard.msnw (419 words)

	Books about Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Rock 'Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia John Strausbaugh - August 2001
		Rock Troubadours: Conversations on the Art and Craft of Songwriting Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers - December 2000
		Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture Edward L. Macan - November 1996
	hotburrito.20m.com /shop/books/rock.html (929 words)

	NewBeats: Fefe Dobson
		The comparisons to that other Canadian pop star (first name starts with A, last name begins with L) is a given.
		Dobson has a voice more tailored for rock than pop, and the songs on her self-titled album are mostly guitar-rock oriented, save for the slick production.
		The singer has spunk and attitude that are noteworthy attributes; it'll be while if they are enough to sustain a career.
	www.newbeats.com /fefedobson.html (68 words)

	Status Quo (band) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Status Quo is a (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) UK (A band of musicians who play rock-'n'-roll music) rock band founded by Alan Lancaster and (Click link for more info and facts about Francis Rossi) Francis Rossi in 1962.
		They began as a (A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western) rock and roll freakbeat band called the Spectres.
		They showed a great energy during this decade and in the first years of the following one, and are best known for songs from this era such as Whatever You Want, Rockin' All Over The World and Down Down.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/status_quo_(band).htm (484 words)

	Rob Weychert \| Editorials: “Rock, Rock, ’til You Drop”
		Sunday night was Technician and Dysrhythmia at the Pontiac, and I’m really glad these guys are from Philly so I have plenty of chances to see them.
		Dysrhythmia: Complicated, technical mix of math rock, metal, punk, jazz and prog.
		Monday night was Andrew W.K. again, this time in Allentown at a super-cheesy club called Crocodile Rock.
	robweychert.com /editorials/2002/09/21/rock_rock_til_you_drop/index.php (328 words)

	Nathan Marciniak: Rock Music Is To Blame! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		We need look no further than such Pro-Terrorist songs as "Rock Rock Til You Drop", "Rocket" and "Pyromania", the title track of this evil record.
		It was only until September 11th that their vision of vengeance against America would come finally come to pass in a pyre of rock and roll destruction.
		No, the condemning finger of blame for these heinous acts must point to where it always belonged: At Rock `N Roll Music, and more specifically, at Def Leppard - They are the TRUE 'Great Satan' and the ultimate threat to liberty, justice and peace for all.
	my.execpc.com /~saruman/articles/pyro2.html (393 words)

	The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service): This week's Web Winners: Rock `til you drop.@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The book on "colostomy rock" was written by John Strausbaugh.
		He trashes aging rockers, and even the arguably pointless Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
		The aging Bruce Springsteen is the first geezer to greet visitors to the Web site of the museum.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:120641453&refid=ink_tptd_np (189 words)

	Rock Til You Drop: The Decline From Rebellion To Nostalgia; Author: Strausbaugh, John; Hardback; Book
		Rock Til You Drop: The Decline From Rebellion To Nostalgia; Author: Strausbaugh, John; Hardback; Book
		Photos.Strausbaugh scrutinizes the faded stars of late '60s and early '70s rock'n'roll such as Cher and The Rolling Stones, who continue to limp through old standards that have lost all edge and meaning.
		He reflects good but doesn't flinch from condemning the bad!This text scrutinizes the faded stars of late 60s and early 70s rock n' roll such as Cher and The Rolling Stones, who continue to limp through old standards that have lost all edge and meaning.
	www.netstoreusa.com /mubooks/185/1859846297.shtml (278 words)

	♫>> Search results for "rock til you drop forty five ... songs albums" / mp3se.com <<♫ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Def Leppard - Pyromania - Rock Rock(Till You Drop)
		Status Quo - Rock 'Til You Drop - Rock 'til You Drop
		Def Leppard - Pyromania - Rock Rock (Til You Drop)
	mp3se.com /search.php?q=rock+til+you+drop+forty+five+...+songs+albums (1183 words)

	Fefe Dobson CD Review \| Everything \| Take Me Away \| Lyrics \| Pop Rock Music \| Pics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fefe has joined the guitar rock chick movement that includes Avril, Alanis Morissette, and Amy Lee of Evanescence.
		Other notable songs on the album are Rock It Til You Drop It, Revolution
		Don't think of her as just another rocker chick because she has the potential to make it big world-wide.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p4663.htm (298 words)

	Wausau Daily Herald - Rock, rock 'til you drop Schedule
		A four-day lineup of veteran hard rockers, from Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant to glam poster boys Poison, will perform several decades' worth of head-banging hits and scorching power ballads.
		Rock Fest runs today through Sunday at the Chippewa Valley Music Festivals grounds on Highway S in Cadott.
		A four-day pass is $140 for adults and $70 for kids ages 6 to 12; a one-day pass is $70 for adults, $35 for kids ages 6-12; children younger than 6 are admitted free with paid adult admission.
	www.wausaudailyherald.com /wdhentertainment/278079694300199.shtml (144 words)

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