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Generally speaking, popular music is the antithesis of abstract. To be popular at all, it must have a large receptive audience, and the most receptive ....
Modern-day musicians may need to be pretty adaptable to keep their careers afloat, but that flexible mindset has long been in place among players savvy ....
So revered in the UK that he made the top 50 in a BBC poll of ‘Greatest Britons of all time,’ John Peel (1939-2004) shaped popular culture in ways that Americans may never know or understand. As a pirate radio deejay, a band manager, promoter and cheerleader, print journalist, BBC radio presenter, arranger of recording sessions, record label owner and all-around presence, Peel held the door for the progressive and idiosyncratic to enter rock & roll, be it psychedelia, garage rock, punk, prog rock, folk-rock, industrial, and post-rock. Richie Unterberger dug deep into the archives and talked to people who knew him to produce this captivating portrait of John Peel. ....
The diary entry for the day his father, Max, died read: Dear Dad died today. Syd Barrett was 15. In a letter to his girlfriend Libby three days later, he said: I could write a book about his merits. Perhaps I will some time. He never got to write it. Later this month, Omnibus Press, in collaboration with Barrett s estate, will publish the late genius s collected lyrics in an authorised form for the first time. But who was Syd Barrett? He was the young visionary who wrote eight of the 11 tracks on Pink Floyd s debut, The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. Released in 1967, the album is the apogee of English psychedelic music along with The Beatles Sgt Pepper. It was also the last album Syd ever recorded with the band he founded in 1965. ....