dead singer
de Michael Moorcock
A journey without direction. A ton of drugs. The Mountain Grill. The glory of rock. The overdose in the basement. And the persistent idea of someone who walks while already dead. These are the ingredients that Michael Moorcock uses in the story of his Dead Singer. Ghost story. Drug addict hallucination. Macabre fantasy. After a tour, Shakey Mo, lead singer of 70s rock bands like Hawkwind and Deep Fix, meets the resurrected Jimi Hendrix. Together they travel aimlessly in a motorhome through the north of England while they chat about the sorry state of rock and roll and whether there is any hope for its future. With the publication in 1974 of A Dead Singer, Michael Moorcock, a reference of the new British wave of science fiction and one of the 50 best British writers of the second half of the 20th century (The Times), uprooted the ghost of a tragically dead decade and placed him in the next, in an act that served to show Hendrix horrified by the legacy of his generation.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK (London, 1939) is a prolific British-American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is also an editor, journalist, critic, composer and musician for rock groups such as Hawkwind. Moorcock is particularly known for his novels about the character Elric of Melniboné, which were a seminal influence on the field of fantasy in the 1960s and 1970s. As editor of New Worlds magazine he promoted the new wave of science fiction in the United Kingdom and indirectly in the United States, contributing to the development of cyberpunk.
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