Clinton Heylin is the greatest living writer about rock music. He’s never enjoyed the elite status of seminal graybeards such as Robert Christgau and Greil Marcus or the mythical aura of gonzo martyr ...

Clinton Heylin takes as his title part of the penultimate line of Sonnet XVIII, probably the most-taught of Shakespeare's sonnets in American public education. In the first chapter, Heylin draws an ...