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Allan Handelman's 2009 Guest Links
October 16th
Rock 'n' roll author Anthony Bozza on the importance of AC/DC and cyclist Frosty Wooldridge on worldwide adventures and conservation.
Anthony Bozza
"Why AC/DC Matters"
www.anthonybozza.net
Frosty Wooldridge, the bicyclist who traveled 100,000 miles on 6 continents and crossed the USA 6 times.
www.frostywooldridge.com
www.numbersusa.com
"America on the Brink"
AC/DC is the second-best-selling popular music act of all time, bested
only by The Beatles. They’ve sold 200 million albums worldwide. Back
in Black is the second best-selling album in the world behind Michael
Jackson’s Thriller. In 2008, thirty-five years after AC/DC first took
to the stage, their sixteenth studio album, Black Ice, debuted at #1
in 29 countries around the world, despite the fact that it was only
available in WalMart, Sam’s Club, and via the band’s website.
So with credentials like these, why is a book titled WHY AC/DC MATTERS
(William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; Hardcover;
October 13, 2009) necessary? Because, from the start, AC/DC was at
best ignored—and at worst ridiculed—by the mainstream music press. In
AC/DC’s thirty-five-year history, the band has graced the cover of
Rolling Stone exactly twice––there was no Bon Scott memorial issue, no
exclusive “in the studio” pieces, and no fitting recognition in any of
the magazine’s endless “greatest” lists. The mainstream media’s
critical subtext has always been that AC/DC is unworthy of serious
consideration, an inexplicably popular band for the tasteless masses,
selling the obvious to an unseen, uncultured majority.
Now Anthony Bozza sets the record straight. In addition to helming
Rolling Stone’s Random Notes column for two years, he penned a wide
array of cover stories and features on artists ranging from Trent
Reznor to Jennifer Lopez to Ozzy Osbourne and Bo Didley. Bozza also
has several mega-selling books to his credit: he wrote Whatever You
Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem, and co-wrote comedian Artie
Lange’s Too Fat to Fish which debuted at #1 on the New York Times
bestseller list, Tommyland, the autobiography of Mötley Crüe drummer
Tommy Lee, and Slash, the autobiography of Guns N Roses and Velvet
Revolver’s legendary guitarist. In WHY AC/DC MATTERS Bozza throws down
the gauntlet when he states, “AC/DC is the greatest living rock band,
end of story.” Coming from him, this means something.
Bozza’s perspective in WHY AC/DC MATTERS is unique, combining the keen
analytical eye of a pop culture critic with the zeal of a true music
lover. His writing career has provided him with keen insight into what
makes rock bands tick, and incredible access to its top-rung talent.
In these pages we hear from rockers Tommy Lee and Slash, multiple
Grammy Award-wining producer Rick Rubin, and professors of voice and
guitar at the prestigious Berklee School of Music.
Bozza examines AC/DC’s rise and every aspect of what makes them so
appealing, influential, and culturally important—the bonds of
brotherhood (familial and otherwise) within the band, their instantly
recognizable sound, their remarkable consistency, and their army of
devoted fans who span generations. This is not a definitive biography
of the band. There is no deep examination of the childhood and rise of
each band member or travelogue of tour bus and backstage antics.
Instead, Bozza treats us to the ultimate critical appreciation of a
supremely beloved and phenomenally successful rock band. WHY AC/DC
MATTERS is the sum total of the long-overdue serious consideration
that has been so incredibly and conspicuously absent—until now.
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