The Show I’ll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concert-going Experience

This is a remarkable gathering of original essays on the one concert these writers will remember above all and forever. It is one of the more universal questions that offers a glimpse into a person’s soul: What was the greatest concert you ever saw? A rite of passage, a life-changing experience, a catalyst of musical epiphanies, a concert is an auditory, visual and social experience unlike any other. In The Show I’ll Never Forget , music journalist Sean Manning has collected an amazing array of testimonies from a veritable A-list of writers and musicians. Take a trip back to 1955 with the poet and novelist Ishmael Reed to see Miles Davis in Paris; relive New York City’s club glory days with Low Life scribe Luc Sante while taking in a Public Image Limited show at the Ritz; raise your lighter high along with novelist and poet Maggie Estep at a cacophonic Einsturzende Neubaten show; or resurrect the Notorious B.I.G. on his Brooklyn home turf with best-selling emo scribe Andy Greenwald. No matter where your musical taste falls, these essays, all written especially for The Show I’ll Never Forget , are sure to connect with anyone who loves live music.