ROCK Sex: From HOWL to WISE UP GHOST: Allen Ginsberg > Elvis Costello and The Roots

Today, ROCK Sex floats "across the tops of cities contemplating Jazz".

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Here's the paperback cover of Allen Ginsberg's poetic masterpiece, HOWL (1956).>

And here's Elvis Costello and The Roots giving tribute (2013).

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"angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection
to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night"

Allen Ginsberg, 1955

Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg and John Lennon

Allen Ginsberg, Joe Strummer, and Mick Jones
THE CLASH with Allen Ginsberg -"Ghetto Defendant" (1982)

Joey Ramone and Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg and Paul McCartney


© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• Chuck Berry > Bob Dylan > Ultravox > Elvis Costello

• "Time Is Tight!" - Booker T > The Clash > Elvis Costello > Squeeze

• "I Want You!" - The Troggs, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Cheap Trick, Elvis Costello +


• THE CANON 1: 50 Books That Created Modern Pop Culture, with Music Player!

• THE CANON 2: 50 More Books That Created Modern Pop Culture, with Music Player!

• THE CANON 3: 50 Recent Books That Created Modern Pop Culture, with Music Player!


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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