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The Armageddon Rag

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1983
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One - Those were the days, my friend / We'd thought they'd never end
Two - I see a bad moon a-rising / I see trouble on the way
Three - It's not often easy, and not often kind / Did you ever have to make up your mind?
Four - Look at the sky turning hellfire red / Somebody's house is burning down, down, down
Five - Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away / Now I need a place to hide away / Oh, I belive in yesterday
Six - Show me the way to the next little girl / Oh don't ask why, oh don't ask why
Seven - Hello darkness, my old friend / I've some to talk with you again
Eight - Who'll take the promise that you don't have to keep? / Don't look now, it ain't you or me
Nine - It was twenty years ago today / Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play
Ten - Mystic crystal revelation / And the mind's true liberation
Eleven - One generation got old, one generation got soul / This generation got no destination to hold
Twelve - Some are born to sweet delight / Some are born to the endless night (written by Jim Morrison)
Thirteen - And I come back to find the stars misplaced / And the smell of a world that has burned
Fourteen - Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight / Flashing for the refugees on the unarmed road of flight
Fifteen - Home is where my thought's escaping / Home, where my music's playing / Home, where my love lies waiting, silently for me
Sixteen - Is there anything that man don't stand to lose / When the devil wants to take it all away?
Seventeen - And in my hour of darkness / She is standing right in front of me
Eighteen - Look what they've done to my song, ma! / Look what they've done to my song!
Nineteen - Purple haze all in my brain / Lately things don't seem the same / Actin' funny, but I don't know why
Twenty - And we'll go dancing baby and then you'll see / Now the magic's in the music and the music's in me
Twenty-one - Like a rat in a maze the path before me lies / And the pattern never alters, until the rat dies
Twenty-two - When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead / And the white knight's talking backwards
Twenty-three - Come hear Uncle John's band, playing to the tide / Come with me or go alone, he's come to take his children home
Twenty-four - Heard the singers playin', how we cheered for more / The crowd then rushed together, trying to keep warm
Twenty-five - She was practiced at the art of deception / Well, I could tell by her blood-stained hands
Twenty-six - But my dreams they aren't as empty / As my concience seems to be
Twenty-seven - This is the end / My only friend the end (written by Jim Morrison)
Twenty-eight - Lately it occurs to me / What a long, strange trip its been
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Copyright © George R. R. Martin 1983
To the Beatles,
to the Airplane and the Spoonful and the Dead,
to Simon and Garfunkel, Joplin and Hendrix
to Buffalo Springfield and the Rolling Stones,
to the Doors and the Byrds, the Mamas and the Papas,
to Melanie, to Donovan, to Peter, Paul, and Mary,
to the Who, the Moody Blues, and Mby Grape,
to Country Joe and the Fish, Paul Revere and the Raiders,
to Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell
to the Mothers of Invention and the Smothers Brothers,
to the Hollies and the Association of the Beach Boys
  and even Herman and the Hermits,
to Credence Clearwater Revival,
to lost innocence and bright, shining dreams,

and especially, to Parris:
looking at you, I hear the music.
It was not one of Sandy Blair's all-time great days.
May contain spoilers
They woke to the song of 'Thursday's Child,' who has far to go.
Comments may contain spoilers
Heard that this was a good book from a co-worker, who also pointed me to the Song of Fire and Ice series.
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Added: 14-Jun-2015
Last Updated: 24-Apr-2020

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 28-Sep-2004
Gollancz
Paperback
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Date Issued:
28-Sep-2004
Format:
Paperback
Cover Price:
£7.99
Pages*:
363
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Internal ID:
1599
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ISBN:
1-407-24728-X
ISBN-13:
978-1-407-24728-1
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
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Sex, drugs, rock... and murder

Onetime underground journalist Sandy Blair has travelled far from his radical roots in the '60s - until the bizarre and brutal murder of a millionaire rock promotor draws him back.

As Sandy sets out to investigate the crime, he finds himself on a magical mystery tour of the pent-up passions of his generation. For a new messiah has resurrected the once legendary rock band Nazgul - but with an apocalyptic new beat that is a requiem of demonism, mind control, and death only Sandy may be able to change in time...

This early novel from George RR Martin, bestselling author of A Game Of Thrones, takes the reader deep into the murky underbelly of the '60s rock scene. Peopled by misfits, beatniks and drug fiends, it's no wonder that not everyone survived...

"The best novel concerning the American pop music culture of the '60s I've ever read"
Stephen King
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Author(s)

George R R Martin  
Birth: 20 Sep 1948 Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Notes:
From "About the Author" in A Game of Thrones:

GEORGE R. R. MARTIN sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally since then. He spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer-producer, working on The Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid '90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. He has been in the Seven Kingdoms ever since. Whenever he’s allowed to leave, he returns to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lives with the lovely Parris, a big white dog called Mischa, and two cats named Augustus and Caligula, who think they run the place.

Awards

1984Locus MagazineBest Fantasy Novel Nominee
1984World Fantasy ConventionWorld Fantasy Award - Novel Nominee
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