(1949-10-23)October 23, 1949 Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Died
October 20, 2019(2019-10-20) (aged 69) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Biographer
essayist
journalist
novelist
poet
Nationality
American
Website
nicktosches.com
Nicholas P. Tosches (/ˈtɑːʃəs/; October 23, 1949 – October 20, 2019) was an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet. His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire, was praised by Rolling Stone magazine as "the best rock and roll biography ever written."[1][2]
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knows who else." A compendium, The NickTosches Reader, collects writings from over the course of his career. Tosches was featured on the Travel Channel...
In the Hand of Dante is the third novel by NickTosches. The book interweaves two separate stories, one set in the 14th century in Italy and Sicily and...
also worked at KTRM (now KZZB) in Beaumont. Deejay Gordon Baxter told NickTosches that Jones had acquired the nickname "possum" while working there. During...
are known for both their peculiar appearance, described by journalist NickTosches as "something that could exist only in a purely hallucinatory eco-system"...
Look up Tosches in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tosches is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: NickTosches (1949–2019), American...
it would be foolish to name any single record as the first. Writer NickTosches similarly felt that, "It is impossible to discern the first modern rock...
Devil and Sonny Liston by NickTosches, published in 2000, when many of Liston's former acquaintances were still alive, Tosches posits that Liston's idol...
Retrieved February 22, 2020. McGilligan, p. 114 McGilligan, p. 115 Tosches, Nick. "NickTosches on Clint Eastwood". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on...
1977, but RCA Records did not release it for three years. According to NickTosches, who wrote Dangerous Dances, the authorized biography of Hall & Oates...
269. ISBN 0-252-00470-1 Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock & Roll by NickTosches 1996 Da Capo Press "NPR's series of chronicles on American Music". Npr...
Cut Numbers is the first novel by NickTosches. It involves small-time criminals struggling to maintain the financial viability of their cut numbers game...
Blue Eyes and Exit Wounds is a spoken word/poetry album by NickTosches and Hubert Selby Jr. In the Heat of the Night (excerpt) Only the Lonely La Vie...
Australia shortly before her final illness. Her music career was profiled in NickTosches' 1984 book, The Unsung Heroes of Rock 'N' Roll: The Birth of Rock in...
Rider comic book character "Hellfire" (NickTosches book), a 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis by NickTosches Hellfire (1949 film), a 1949 western Hellfire...
by NickTosches. Based on his own in-depth research, including several interviews with Sindona himself while he was in prison awaiting trial, Tosches tells...
American mass culture", grew to enormous popularity and formed what NickTosches called "the heart of 19th-century show business". A significant influence...
doi:10.1093/past/169.1.132. JSTOR 651266. Retrieved 9 November 2022. NickTosches (2009-06-16). Unsung Heroes Of Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth Of Rock In The...
The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2018-08-28. Tosches, Nick (12 December 2008). "NickTosches on Clint Eastwood". Vanity Fair. Retrieved September...
nowhere. Quoted from Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams by NickTosches. "Pop-Standard Singles", Billboard, August 1, 1964. p. 43. Accessed September...
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