Rock is the music of teenage rebellion. --- John Rockwell, rock music critic     By a man's heroes ye shall know him. --- Robert Penn Warren, novelist

     1. It was mid-June, 1972. The Chicago Amphitheater was packed, sweltering, rocking. Onstage, Mick Jagger of the Rolling-Stones was singing “Midnight Rambler.” Critic Don Heckman was there when the song ended. “Jagger,” he said, “grabs a half-gallon jug of water and runs along the front platform, sprinkling its contents over the first few rows of sweltering listeners. They surge to follow him, eager to be touched by a few baptismal drops.”
     2. It was late December, 1973. Some 14 000 screaming fans were crunching up to the front of the stage at Capital Center, outside Washington, D. C. Alice Cooper, America’s singing ghoul, was ending his act. He ends it by pretending to end his life -- with a guillotine. His “head” drops into a straw basket. “Ooh,” gasped a girl dressed in black. “Oh, isn’t that marvelous? “Fourteen-year-old Mike Perlie was there too, but his parents weren’t. “They think he's sick, sick, sick,” Mike said. “They say to me, ‘How can you stand that stuff?’”
     3. It was late January, 1974. Inside the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, Bob Dylan and The Band were tuning up for a concert. Outside, in the pouring rain, fan Chris Singer was waiting
to get in. “This is a pilgrimage,” Chris said. “I ought m be crawling on my knees.”