Chuck Eddy is the author of the books Stairway to Hell, The Accidental Evolution of Rock’n’ Roll, and Rock and Roll Always Forgets. He has served as music editor at the Village Voice and as a senior editor at Billboard, and has written thousands of pieces over the past 30 years for Creem, Rolling Stone, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, and countless other publications and websites. A native of Detroit, he now lives in Austin, Texas .
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