Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me, reviewed for Washington Post Book World
Chris Klimek
I've admired music critic Steven Hyden's writing in Grantland since I first took notice of it a couple of years ago, so I was grateful for the opportunity to review his new book, Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life, for the Washington Post. If you'd like to read an excerpt from one of my favorite chapters, about the mid-80s clash of egos between Michael Jackson and Prince, Slate ran a piece of that chapter the day that Prince died.
I haven't written about Prince (save for a few hundred Tweets) because I've been busy and I've found the prospect of it too overwhelming. His sudden death hit me much harder than Bowie's did.