Marcus was natural witharound 1945 in San Francisco. He earned an undergrad degree inside Our contries Studies from either a University of California at Berkeley, where he too did graduate operate inside political science. He has been the rock critic & editorialist for Rolling Stone (where he was a foremost reviews editor at $30 a week) & more publications, including the Village Voice and Artforum. He presently writes a column Times Between Stations (known as fallowing a Steve Erickson novel) for Interview. From either 1983 to 1989, Marcus was on the Board of Directors for the National Book Critics Circle. A Manic Street Preachers named their rarities collection album Lipstick Traces after his 1989 book.

Bibliography
Rock & Roll Will Stand (1969), edited anthology Double Feature: Flick & Politics (1972), co-authored with Michael Goodwin ''Mystery Trainside: Images of United states of america in Rock 'North' Roll Music (1975, quaternary revision 1997) Stranded: Rock & Roll for the Desert Island (1979, editor & contributor) Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), a book in 20th century avant-garde art movements like Dadaism, Lettrist International and Situationist International and their influence on late 20th century counter-cultures & A Sex Shooting iron and Punk Movement. Dead Elvis: The Account of the Cultural Obsession (1991), just about a phenomenon of Elvis Presley in the years since his death inside the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992 (1993, published in the United states when Raver & Crowd Pleasers) A Trash can of History (1995) Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes (1998; besides discharged when A Old, Wyrd United states: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes'', 2001), the treatise in America when seen across Dylan's far-famed Basement Tapes recordings Double Painside: Bill Clinton & Elvis Presley in the Land of There is no Option (2001) A Manchurian Candidate (2002) A Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad (2004, co-edited with Sean Wilentz) Such as a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossing (2005), the "biography" of the Dylan song

de:Greil Marcus