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Robert Thomas Christgau is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics a
Christgau in 2010
Christgau on the "Music in the '00s" panel at the 2010 Pop Conference in Seattle.
Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies is a music reference book by American music journalist and essayist Robert Christgau. It was first published in October 1981 by Ticknor & Fields.
Robert Christgau
…Guide" columns during his tenure at The Village Voice from 1969 to 2006, the reviews were collected in book form across three decade-ending volumes: Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (1990), and Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s (2000). Multiple collections of his essays have…
Christgau's Record Guide
The guide originated from Robert Christgau's column in The Village Voice (former headquarters pictured in 2008).
Christgau's intense work on the book temporarily strained his marriage to fellow writer Carola Dibbell (2007). He later dedicated the book to her.
Christgau (right) and Chuck Eddy (left) – one of several critics who have recommended the book – in 2010 at the Museum of Pop Culture's Pop Conference