There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll (2014)

According to a friend: It's dishy, at times hilarious, and extremely entertaining, with an insider look at rock and roll, hip hop, music journalism. It's basically everything.

Boring. A waste of time. In the grand scheme of things, who cares? Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for this. Read a couple of chapters, then put it down. Too much about the Stones; I've never been a fan. Sorry! ( )

I enjoy books about rock and roll, including those written by critics. I loved Ellen Willis and Lillian Roxon, especially - female critics are a rare breed. This memoir contains LP writing (John Lennon, Jagger, Bowie, Led Zeppelin, New York Dolls, Ramones, Michael Jackson, U2, Patti Smith, Clash) and 45s (Kanye, Jay Z, Iggy Pop, Television, Gaga, Eminem, Lou Reed). But there's so little about the music itself that it's basically "A Guide To Who I Hung Out With". ( )

i received There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll by Lisa Robinson as a selection from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. While I expected this book to be more about Lisa Robinson and her life as a rock journalist, I found, in my opinion, that wasn't particularly the case. Though she does write about how/why/where she met with all these people in the rock scene, there is more about what those individuals/groups had to say/did than I thought there would be. I found this book to be quite interesting, but preferred to read it a chapter or so at a time, instead of cover to cover as you would a "regular" memoir or novel. ( )

Robinson was a rockjournalist/fan/almost a groupie. She’s written a memoir, which covers rock and roll from the Stones to Gaga. The chapters on the early punk rock scene in NYC (CBGB’s, The New York Dolls, Patti Smith) were probably the most interesting. I was also intrigued by her descriptions of Michael Jackson and of Eminem.

The book is interesting if you want rock and roll gossip. To me, it kind of dragged on; story after story, lots of name-dropping, but not a coherent whole. ( )