“I don’t mean to brag, I don’t mean to boast. But I’m intercontinental when I eat French toast.” – Adrock
U.S. National Bestseller “Rock On” by Dan Kennedy finds its way out of the crates on the other side of the pond this week. The Guardian UK and Sunday’s London Times weigh in.
“Blessed with an eye for detail and a shrewd sense of comic timing, Kennedy plays his internal narrative against the grain of his subject matter with consistently entertaining results. An equally amusing and eye-opening journey through the corridors of power in the corporate rock universe.” —The Guardian U.K., David Sinclair
“A desperate, venal tale such as this needs a light touch, and Kennedy proves adept at supplying it….His narrative is a fractured mix of cameo scenes from the day job, the surreal daydreams that sprout from it, and satirical doodles. The comedy in Rock On owes more to The Office than it does to Spinal Tap. Kennedy is not, in real life, the bumbling ingénu he masquerades as in Rock On. He is a wise guy in geek’s clothing. It’s a measure of his book’s success that this running gag neither palls nor distorts Kennedy’s high-spirited obituary for the record business.”
—The London Times, Sunday March 30, 2008