UPDATED: Stephen King's Five Best Rock and Roll References
UPDATED (Friday, 11:50 a.m.) to correct the ID in the top photo.![]()
tescovee.com Stephen King and Meat Puppets bassist Danny Dirtbag
This past week saw the release of Stephen King's latest short novel of hard-boiled crime fiction called Joyland, by my count his 70th overall, not counting reprints and compilations. What fuels output like that? By King's own admission, at one point it was cocaine; nowadays it's just nicotine and caffeine. But he also consumes a steady diet of rock and roll music spanning the genre's beginnings to today's young bucks.
With the release of Joyland, I decided to look back at some of King's best rock references and fixations throughout his legendary bibliography, and even his best-forgotten foray into directing films.
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