Guitarist, composer and writer Lenny Kaye was a member of the Patti Smith Group and has been Smith's most frequent collaborator. He wrote the liner notes for Nuggets (1972), which included one of the first uses of the term "punk rock". He was also a close friend of expatriate Australian rock writer and journalist Lillian Roxon.
He also co-authored Waylon Jennings' autobiography (Waylon: An Autobiography, ISBN 1570424357)
Rock critic LennyKaye, the author of You Call It Madness, brought interesting credentials to his task: He was the lead guitarist for the Patti Smith Group and a pioneer of psychedelic music in the 1970s.
Kaye's book is a hybrid of fiction and history, written under the stylistic influence of his collaborations with Smith and Allen Ginsberg.
Kaye's knowledge across the entire spectrum of popular culture is encyclopedic, but it becomes his greatest liability.
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