"Greil Marcus has been America's foremost expert on the subject of pop music for over three decades," wrote Chris Nelson in Seattle Weekly Online. "Author of classics such as Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, he's made a career of uncovering and breathing life into the furtive histories of songs, histories that without his work would remain secret not only to listeners, but the creators themselves." Marcus has focused much of his work on the careers of artists such as Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley, but has also chronicled the work of groups like the Sex Pistols and the Punk music phenomenon to the rise of Atlantic Records. He has been one of the United States' most highly regarded writers on rock and roll music since beginning his career as an editor of the popular music magazine Rolling Stone, writing articles and reviews on music, books, politics, and other...