"Buddy Rich, a foul-mouthed thunder-demon of a drummer, might even have been justified in feeling he could out-rock Elvis. But history didn't care how Rich felt. And it doesn't care how you feel, either, even if (like Wald, or me) you're the sort of bookish, white male connoisseur who typically takes it on himself to arbitrate pop history while disdaining the audience that almost always drives it: young women on dance floors."
Carl Wilson in The Globe and Mail reviews Elijah Wald's How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music.
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