Simon Reynolds - Retromania (Book) The Print Room The cover photo is of

The cover photo is of the trio on the porch of one of the Laurel Canyon houses

North East Valley is courtesy of the Hocken Collections

bouncy NZ rocker after another

the album reached #8 on the UK Albums Charts and #23 on the Billboard charts

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Simon Reynolds - Retromania (Book) The Print Room The cover photo is ofIn Retromania: Pop Cultures Addiction to its Own Past, Simon Reynolds asks: could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is . . . its past? The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, Retromania explores rocks nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never before been a culture so obsessed with its own immediate past. Pulling together parallel threads from music,