Greil Marcus

Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession is a non-fiction book by American rock-music critic Greil Marcus that examines the influence of Elvis Presley on United States culture in the latter half of the 1970s. Marcus focuses primarily on the years immediately following the singer's death in 1977, in a series of …

Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes is a book by music critic Greil Marcus about the creation and cultural importance of The Basement Tapes, a series of recordings made by Bob Dylan in 1967 in collaboration with the Hawks, who would subsequently become known as the Band. The updated paperback edition is …

Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America's finest critic of popular music— "simply …