There Goes Gravity

A Life in Rock and Roll

By: Lisa Robinson

Narrated by: Lisa Robinson

From a legendary journalist with four decades of unprecedented access and untold stories, an insider’s behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll.

Lisa Robinson has interviewed everyone from John Lennon to Bono to Patti Smith, Eminem to Lady Gaga to Jay-Z and Kanye West. She’s talked nail polish with a twelve-year-old Michael Jackson, hosted The Clash at Studio 54, and introduced Lou Reed to David Bowie over filet mignon in a Manhattan restaurant. She helped Elvis Costello and The Clash get their record deals. She had total access to the punk scene at CBGBs, was on a private plane with the Rolling Stones during a lightning storm and with Led Zeppelin when their tour manager pulled out a gun. Unlike any other journalist who covered this world, she was the only woman to break into this exclusive boys' club. The story of rock and roll for the last four decades is Lisa Robinson’s story. She has lived and breathed music – the sound, the scene, the personalities – and she shares her stories all together here for the first time.

A fun rock and roll trip, shared by someone who helped write the history of the genre, literally.

The first half is great, funny, riveting, her read on the zeitgeist, spot on. The second half, more of a mixed bag. And she get’s Madonna completely wrong. I went from loving it to kind of just wishing it would end.

Fun with great insights

An interesting and fun recounting of several decades of rock journalists. She definitely spent a lot of time with music giants but she makes them all very human and intriguing through this book. A good ride.

Fun, but a bit too political for my taste

Wonderful insights about Lisa's days with classic bands like The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Unfortunately, halfway through the author/reader starts going on and on about George W Bush, whom she dislikes. It's dated and boring. Recommended for the first half only.

Must listen

If you care about rock AND roll, blues, or music at all, then you have to listen to this book. Lisa Robinson has been around many of the greatest musicians of the past century, and recounts her experiences with great detail. Her witty humor kept me laughing throughout. I loved every minute of it. Thank you, Lisa.

Face it she's completely brilliant.

She's in it for the art and underlying muse of political current. I mean she's dead on right when you're talking about growing up and being aware of the pure esoteric effulgence of New York City. She slogged it out all the way for that lovely kind of powdered luscious syrup that's not money. Given she could have ended fewer of her sentences with her "that was sure annoying" kind of vocal melody, but face it she's the end all be all observer of rock and roll as art.