“WRITING ON THE EDGE”
Le Havre, in the early 1970s. Every month, Jérôme Soligny would buy Rock&Folk, Best and Extra from the corner newsagent?s uptown with his pocket money. And the teenager, who, as a child, had fallen into the magic potion of rock and pop would make sure to pinch at least two of those from another shop for displays on his bedroom walls. 2008; Jérôme and his family still live on the music he has loved for over forty years.
Jérôme Soligny is a musician, author, biographer, poet, translator and editorial adviser with Rock&Folk. He regularly writes about most of his favorite musicians. Through a solid prologue and forty nine chapters dealing with forty nine major rock figures with the complete text of Rock&Folk articles examined from a new viewpoint in an often vivid introduction, “Writing on the Edge” tells the “Odyssey”?Philippe Man?uvre?s description of Jérôme Soligny?s career in the preface of “The history of Rock&Folk”? of the author, an avid reader of the rock press gone through the glazed paper and of the rockers that impressed him.
The book is illustrated by the author and his wife, Sophie, also a journalist and enriched with exclusive declarations by friends, either artists referred to in the articles (David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Iggy Pop, Neil Tennant or Brett Anderson) or journalists, musicians and anonymous readers of all generations whose lives were influenced by these articles.
“Writing on the Edge” would certainly be the book of a lifetime if Jérôme Soligny had not opted for several lives.
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“Jérôme is a guy who is still aware that popular music is an art form
and not a money suppository.  He writes from the heart
and is one of the last exemplars of a dying breed.
The critic, armed with intelligence and brute compulsive honesty,
as dangerous as a river.” ÂÂ
Iggy Pop