About the Author

After three years as MOJO's US Bureau Chief, Barney Hoskyns returned to London in 1999 and is now Editorial Director of the Rock's Backpages website [www.rocksbackpages.com]. The author of such books as Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes & the Sound Of Los Angeles (1996) and, most importantly, The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods (1999). Hoskyns has written for GQ, Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, Spin, the Guardian and the Independent and recently edited The Sound and the Fury: A Rock's Backpages Reader.

Reviews

"A good story, great music and a bunch of fascinatingly fucked-up lives."