Héroes malditos

Damn artists, cult musicians. What attracts us so much about these creators misunderstood by their contemporaries? The history of rock is dotted with great talents whose success was elusive. Lives given -and prematurely truncated, in many cases- to an often ungrateful job, great composers or performers unjustly forgotten to whom only the passage of time has done poetic justice. Cursed Heroes contributes to raising them and bringing them to light. A lucid, didactic, erudite and passionate essay in which Eduardo Izquierdo draws thirty-three biographical profiles (as many as the revolutions a LP spins) that cover six decades of popular music without neglecting any genre: rock and roll, blues, soul, folk, psychedelia, country, punk or power pop travel through these pages on the back of songs and life experiences on the edge or deeply marked by bad luck or misfortune. From The Big Bopper to Neal Casal, through Esquerita, Phil Ochs, Mama Cass, Blaze Foley, Mia Zapata and Nikki Sudden, Damn Heroes tells us about tenacity and self-confidence, about small victories and big failures. From the fascinating story of some musicians who believed in what they did above all else and whose legacy is offered to us here, ready to be discovered.