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The media continues to lionize Michael Jackson with a deluge of tributes, retrospectives, and eulogies, and a stream of breathless reporting about what his doctor said and what his sisters did and where his kids stayed. Some of my co-bloggers have compared him to John Lennon. Other articles have placed him in a triumvirate with Lennon and Elvis Presley.
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The experience of music and how certain songs can remind us of particular transitory but important times in our lives is explored in You Spin Me Round, a slim book of a dozen essays by mostly Irish writers. Some names will be familiar to an audience clued into a broad reach of contemporary literature, arts criticism, and poetry (Aingeala Flannery, Brian Dillon, Ciaran Carson, Declan Long, Wendy Erskine, M John Harrison), other names not so much unless you’re a reader of literary journals or have an interest in areas of critical theory (Tabitha Lasley, Jayne A Quan, McKenzie Wark, Sydney Weinberg, Colin Graham). All have one thing in common, however: they write about how music changed them as people.