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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“Walking,” the transcendent hit that’s the centerpiece … more »
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Tough, tight, mean, brawny Louisiana hillbilly semi-metal with a singer w… more »
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It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
In 1979 — a decade and a half after "As Tears Go By" made her famou… more »
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On the back of Kansas‘s self-titled first album, which came roaring… more »
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