Geoffrey Stokes (May 3, 1940 – September 12, 1995)[1] was an American journalist and author.[2]
Stokes is best known for Star-Making Machinery: The Odyssey of an Album, his 1976 book about the creation of a Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen album. The book received strong reviews. The Los Angeles Times considered it "the best piece of reportage on how the music biz processes its wayward art."[3]Robert Christgau called it "one of the best rock books ever written and the definitive account of how the music biz operates."[4]Kirkus Reviews wrote that it was a "deflating chronicle of 'the interplay between giant corporations' at the expense of the musicians and the music—once thought to be the harbinger of radical consciousness."[5]
Stokes worked at The Village Voice for many years, writing the “Press Clips” column and using the pseudonym Vladimir Estragon for his food column.[7][8] He also contributed to The Boston Globe and the Valley News.[2]
^ abPareles, Jon (September 15, 1995). "Geoffrey Stokes, 55, A Writer on Music And Sports, Is Dead". The New York Times. p. D17.
^"Rock of Ages: THE ROLLING STONE HISTORY OF ROCK & ROLL by Ed Ward, Geoffrey Stokes and Ken Tucker; introduction by Jann S. Wenner (Rolling Stone/Summit: $24.95; 649 pp.)". Los Angeles Times. February 1, 1987.
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