Five Years Ahead of My Time: Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present

Five Years Ahead of My Time: Garage Rock from the 1950s to the Present tells of a musical phenomenon whose continuing influence on global popular culture is immeasurable.

The story begins in 1950s America, when classic rock ’n’ roll was reaching middle age, and teenaged musicians kept its primal rawness going with rough—hewn instrumentals, practicing guitar riffs in their parents’ garages. In the mid—1960s came the Beatles and the British Invasion, and soon every neighborhood had its own ga...