"CONVERSATION PIECE features 5 CDs (including 12 tracks previously unreleased) and a 120 page hardback book illustrating David's development through 1968 and 1969, via his home demos, BBC radio sessions, studio recordings with John 'Hutch' Hutchinson and the experimental music mime group, Feathers. The collection also celebrates 50th anniversaries of the 'Space Oddity' single and David's second album, 'David Bowie (aka Space Oddity)', with original...

By mixing personal memoir, criticism, and journalism, Hyden explores the ways that classic rock changed the culture -- how it established the album as music's answer to the novel, and rock concerts as the secular equivalent to church -- and asks whether any of these signposts can endure. He investigates the rise and fall of classic rock radio and determines whether the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is telling the right version of Rock history. He revisits...

"Drawing on new interviews with surviving members and people in their inner circle--along with the group's extensive archives and his own research from years of covering the group--David Browne, longtime music journalist and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, does more than merely delve into the Dead's saga. By way of an altogether unique structure--each chapter centered around a significant or pivotal day in their story--he lends this ... musical...