Stranded Rock & Roll for a Desert Island

This is a new edition of this classic of rock journalism that first asked the question: Which one album would you bring to a desert island and why?In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty writers on rock - including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis and Robert Christgau - a question: Which one rock and roll album would you take to a desert island? The resulting essays were collected in "Stranded", twenty passionate declarations to such albums as The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet, the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, Something Else by the Kinks, and more. Universally revered as a classic text of rock journalism, "Stranded" is indispensable.

Featured in the March 2008 Hotbooks newsletter.
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