The first time music journalist Ben Edmonds heard about the MC5, it was from musician friends in a band called Magic Terry and the Universe. He liked what his friends had to say about the band, so Edmonds made sure to go to the MC5’s first New York City show at the Fillmore East. The verdict? “I thought they were hands down the best rock and roll band I had ever seen in my life. It’s an opinion I hold to this day,” Edmonds told journalist Jason Gross in a 1998 interview, adding, “With all the research I’ve done and all the time I’ve spent thinking about the band, I’m not sure I can put their legacy into a simple sound byte. The story is far more complex than anybody knows… What exactly is the legacy of this band that I’ve spent most of my life obsessing over? We’ll see.”⁠ ⁠ An answer to that question is presented in 'MC5: An Oral History of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band,' out now from Hachette Books. The book is based largely on Edmonds’s extensive archive of material about the band f...