Introduction: falling into place / Peter Guralnick -- Bringing it all back home / Bob Dylan -- In me around me and everywhere / Irvine Welsh -- Meaty, beaty, big and bouncy / Pete Townshend -- Looter / Nick Hornby -- A world worthy of our yearning / Salman Rushdie -- And if it dances / Levon Helm, Martin Scorcese, and Robbie Robertson -- From the introduction to The Sound of the City / Charlie Gillett -- Me and the devil / Robert Johnson -- The land where the blues began / Alan Lomax -- Blind Willie McTell / Bob Dylan -- From the Delta to Chicago / Robert Palmer -- The myth of Staggerlee / Griel Marcus -- King of the Delta Blues / James Miller -- Jerry Lee Lewis sees the bright lights of Dallas / Nick Tosches -- Fats / Grace Lichtenstein and Laura Dankner -- Up against the wall with Little Richard / Bumps Blackwell -- 706 Union Avenue / Colin Escott and Martin Hawkins -- The five styles of rock'n'roll / Charlie Gillett -- Do you remember? / Brian Wilson -- Elvis, Scotty, and Bill / Peter Guralnick -- Got to be rock and roll music / Chuck Berry -- The godfather of soul / Nelson George -- A good stomping band / Philip Norman -- Words to the wild / Tom Wolfe -- dog dream / Patti Smith --