Greil Marcus: The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs

Eschewing almost every iconic performer and ignoring the storied events and turning points that everyone knows, Greil Marcus daringly selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008, then proceeds to dramatize how each embodies rock ‘n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out – a new language, something new under the sun.

In this musically illustrated talk, Marcus tells a story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Do not miss a rare appearance in the UK of a founder of contemporary rock criticism and its most gifted and incisive practitioner.