Richard Rushing

No better review than her own words from People Magazine in 1978 - "I want parents to buy it and hide it from their kids, I want kids to buy it and hide it from their parents...". Reading it again, 43 years after publication, it remains the definitive book of rock poetry. Filled with religious imagery, the work is at once both beautifully profane ramblings and deep spiritual truths on the creation of art. Verbally transcribed to her assistant in a Percodan haze after a debilitating fall from a stage in Tampa soon after the release of PSG's brilliant, controversial sophomore album Radio Ethiopia, Babel is a book to be read and re-read, each time deciphering another little piece of code that unlocks the mystery of her memory and imagination.