A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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Andrew Hickey

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.


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Score: 5

Bill McKibben • New Yorker Jul 28, 2023

"He(Hickey) is, in other words, a fan—but not the gushy kind. He’s the sterner kind, a judicious completist who tries to read and pigeonhole everything about a phenomenon. And, as it happens, he has the kind of mind—rare, I think, for a fan—that can make all kinds of connections across time and place. Somehow, over time, the right mix of music theory and social history and biography and good humor coheres into something that, even if stopped tomorrow, would endure as a landmark in the story of popular music but also of podcasting. Andrew Hickey is doing something truly extraordinary."

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