Book DetailsCountry: UK
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Publication Date: 1967
Fictional Artist:
Artist: Johnny Angelo
Genre: Rock 'n' Roll,
Country:UK
Real World Analogue: PJ Proby (extensive quotes from Proby's are passed off as Angelo's), Elvis and Little Richard. The novel also supposedly part inspired David Bowie to create Ziggy Stardust; the final act of Ziggy certainly appears to owe a debt.
Jacket Blurb:
Despite presistent rumours of his death fifteen years ago, Johnny Angelo's legend continues. Johnny Angelo is a rock singer, and this is his story from the beginning. As a child he is a dreamer and a solitary, a thief, a killer of birds and cats. As a man he is a god to his fans, an emperor to his cronies, a hoodlum to his enemies. Girls lie at his feet. He becomes rich. He commits murder. At the end, police shoot him down in the street. In a cool and highly original style Nik Cohn has written a bizarre fable for our time, capturing its sickness and horror yet staying true to its grandeur and allure.
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