David Dalton

David Dalton

David Dalton was a New York Times bestselling author, a founding editor of Rolling Stone, recipient of the Columbia School of Journalism Award, and winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Best Rock Book of the Year award for Faithfull. He was the author of twenty-four books, including biographies of James Dean, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Sid Vicious, the Rolling Stones, and, in 2010 (with Tony Scherman), a critically acclaimed biography of Andy Warhol, Pop. Dalton was the co-author (with Jonathon Cott) of Get Back, the only book ever commissioned by the Beatles. David died in July 2022.

Articles by: David Dalton

Jimi Hendrix onstage at Woodstock

"The truly terrifying voice of a psychotic Republic": How Jimi Hendrix's iconic Woodstock performance was an expression of national nervous breakdown

By David Dalton published

Bethel, New York, August 18, 1969: Most of the crowd hasd gone home, but those who remained bore witness to one of the most famous live performances ever

Bob Dylan posing for a photograph in sunglasses in 1966

“Sometimes the ‘you’ in my songs is me talking to me. Other times I can be talking to somebody else. It’s up to you to figure out who’s who”: The epic story of Bob Dylan’s holy trinity of mystical, magical mid-60s albums

By David Dalton published

How Bob Dylan changed the course of music forever with Bringing It Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde

Jimi Hendrix at the Atlanta Pop Festival

Jimi Hendrix at Monterey: "as if some alien from a hyphenated galaxy had zapped me with a ray gun"

By David Dalton published

Jimi At 50 Monterey, California, June 18, 1967: Pete Townsend smashes his guitar, but it's what Jimi Hendrix does that goes down in history

Hendrix: The Gigs That Changed History – #8 Woodstock

By David Dalton published

Bethel, New York, August 18, 1969

Kosmic kraziness: the acid-drenched Story Of Psych

By David Dalton published

We take a trip back in time and space and dig where the primitive Big Bang began