Bomp remained a fanzine, featuring many writers who would later become prominent music journalists, including Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Ken Barnes, Ed Ward, Dave Marsh, Mike Saunders and R. Meltzer.

According to critic Greil Marcus, the band, led by singer Iggy Pop, created " the sound of Chuck Berry's Airmobile — after thieves stripped it for parts ".

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According to Greil Marcus, some found similarities between the Situationists and the Yippies.

Lester Bangs and Greil Marcus had a combined full page review in Rolling Stone, stating that Morrison now had " the striking imagination of a consciousness that is visionary in the strongest sense of the word.

" Even Greil Marcus, whose previous writings had been favourably inclined towards Morrison, said: " It's Van acting the part of the ' mystic poet ' he thinks he's supposed to be.

The album received mixed reviews, with the lyrics being described as " tired " and " dull ", though critic Greil Marcus praised the musical complexity of the album by saying: " It carries the listener into a musical home so perfect and complete he or she might have forgotten that music could call up such a place, and then populate it with people, acts, wishes, fears.

" When " people who to a real degree shared Elvis Presley ’ s class background, and whose lives were formed by his music ," visited the inside of Graceland, Greil Marcus says in similar terms, they " have returned with one word to describe what they saw: ' Tacky.

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic, collected writings, edited by Greil Marcus.

However, according to Greil Marcus, Laughton was the main act of Sullivan's show.

" Leaving behind the bland clothes he had worn on the first two shows ", Greil Marcus says, Elvis " stepped out in the outlandish costume of a pasha, if not a harem girl.

Greil Marcus, in a critical analysis of the song's history, has written that Price's was an enthusiastic hard rock version with a screaming saxophone. In all of these early recordings of Lloyd Price, Merritt Mel Dalton was the lead Sax Man on the recordings of " Personality, Stagger Lee, I'm gonna get married etc ..," Merritt, was in the traveling band as well and appeared on the Ed Sullivan show with Lloyd Price .< ref >

Writer Greil Marcus described parts of Eat a Peach as an " after-the-rain celebration ... ageless, seamless ... front-porch music stolen from the utopia of shared southern memory.

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Rolling Stones critics Greil Marcus and Lester Bangs jointly reviewed it and concluded: " Moondance is an album of musical invention and lyrical confidence ; the strong moods of " Into the Mystic " and the fine, epic brilliance of " Caravan " will carry it past many good records we'll forget in the next few years.

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Author and music critic Greil Marcus explicitly ties the Stagger Lee archetype to Sly Stone and his album There's a Riot Goin ' On in his book Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ' n ' Roll Music.

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by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus.

Something of a cult figure, Thomas's high pitched voice is one of the most distinctive in rock music ; Emerson Dameron memorably described Thomas's singing as " James Stewart trapped in an oboe ", while Greil Marcus writes that " Mr Thomas's voice is that of a man muttering in a crowd.