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Reliving the Strokes’ heyday, reassessing Dylan’s ‘gospel’ phase, and taking a surreal journey with Art Garfunkel

BY ANDY GREENE

Dreaming the Beatles Rob Sheffield Veteran ROLLING STONE critic Sheffield’s exploration of the Beatles’ impact across the decades is one of the most original and insightful books ever written about the Fab Four. He’s brilliant on everything from George Harrison’s disastrous 1974 solo tour to the Bee Gees’ Sgt. Pepper’s movie. “The world keeps dreaming the Beatles,” Sheffield writes, “long after the Beatles themselves figured the dream was over.” Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman A fast-paced oral history of the early-’00s New York rock scene that produced the Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, among others. Goodman hung out at the time with many of its biggest stars, so there’s an unguarded intimacy as she details events like Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.’s descent into drug abuse. “We were…

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Rolling Stone Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2018

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