Everything Is An Afterthought: The Life And Writings of Paul Nelson Kevin Avery 497 Pages ISBN: 978-1-60699-475-7 Fantagraphics Books 2011 There was a golden age of music criticism ruled by names like Dave Marsh, Ben Fong-Torres, Robert Christgau, Jon Landau, Greil Marcus, Ralph Gleason, Lester Bangs...and Paul Nelson. Once the greatest advocate of the New York Dolls (whom he signed while at Mercury Records in 1973), Bob Dylan (from the beginning and through electricity and beyond), Jackson Browne and Warren Zevon, Nelson is all but unknown today. The one-time record review editor for Rolling Stone left the cozy confines of that magazine in 1982, falling off the edge of the earth to work at a video store and ultimately starve to death (allegedly) in 2006 at the age of 70. His body was not discovered for a week...
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