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The Kinks’ Ray Davies: Brexit is ‘bigger than the Berlin Wall’ | Music | The Guardian

April 8, 2019 W A

As a keen-eyed chronicler of British manners and mores, Ray Daviesis thinking about Brexit a lot. He’s currently writing a book about Britain – “focusing on what it had when I was young” – and he predicts a potentially problematic departure. “It’s going to be a shift of gigantic proportions,” he warns. “Bigger than the…

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The Sacred Triangle; Bowie,Iggy & Lou Reed – YouTube

March 31, 2019 W A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmZsu8Ue7Hw&t=12s

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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings “Stranger To My Happiness” – YouTube

March 16, 2019 W A

You like retro? You like this.

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Prince Had All 3,000 Pairs of His High Heels Custom-Made at This L.A. Cobbler – Vogue

March 14, 2019 W A

Prince maneuvered better in his high heels than most stiletto-clad women do. He would do the splits, jump up, high kick, squat, and run back and forth onstage with specially built 4-inch and 3 1/3-inch height boosters at his soles. After all, Prince Rogers Nelson was a man of mega-talent and charisma but was also…

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The Who’s Roger Daltrey Talks Losing Money, Making New Music & The Tragedy Of Keith Moon At ILMC | Billboard

March 8, 2019 W A

Making new music as The Who We’re just doing a new album at the moment. But it’s a very weird [time] because we’re not really a band anymore. I just love my job of being the guy who takes what Pete’s written as a solo song, looking at it and thinking, ‘How do I make…

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Watch Johnny Rotten and Marky Ramone Lose It on Each Other During a Punk Panel

March 7, 2019 W A

No watching unless you go to the link at the bottom of the page By Calum Slingerland Published Mar 07, 2019 As part of a screening event for Epix’s forthcoming docuseries Punk, a host of genre icons got together this week for a panel discussion. Unexpectedly, some serious punk rock angst was captured onstage rather than…

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Bob Dylan – MTV Interview with Charles M. Young (1985) – YouTube

March 7, 2019 W A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1iBjqn1lJQ

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Watch Frank Zappa Hologram Dismiss Artwork Censorship in Tour Promo – Rolling Stone

March 2, 2019 W A

“I’m a person who likes to do what he wants to do, whether people like it or not,” Zappa says in a clip from a 1984 interview. “And what I do is designed for people who like it, not for people who don’t.” Source: Watch Frank Zappa Hologram Dismiss Artwork Censorship in Tour Promo –…

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Peter Jackson to make new Beatles documentary using unseen footage from ‘Let It Be’ sessions | The Independent

January 30, 2019 W A

Jackson agreed with McCartney that the original does not represent what was actually happening in the studio at the time. “I was relieved to discover the reality is very different to the myth,” Jackson said. “After reviewing all the footage and audio that Michael Lindsay-Hogg shot 18 months before they broke up, it’s simply an…

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Lanois opens sonic temple in Parkdale | Toronto.com

January 27, 2019 W A

A large screen projects a video of Neil Young during Daniel Lanois’ Nuit Blanche installation where Young released his latest album ‘Le Noise’ at Nathan Philip Square. (Oct. 2, 2010) – Staff photo/JEFF HAYWARD Daniel Lanois, a world-renowned music producer has set up shop in an old Buddhist temple in Parkdale. The space has undergone…

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Chris Cornell, Searching for Solitude | Pitchfork

January 16, 2019 W A

“People just don’t realize how much fun it is to be depressed,” he says with a grin—this from the man whose moods may have had as much historical impact on the gloominess of Northwest rock as the surfeit of negative ions in the air. more @ Source: Chris Cornell, Searching for Solitude | Pitchfork

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Why composer Philip Glass viewed David Bowie’s ‘Lodger’ with skepticism – Los Angeles Times

January 11, 2019 W A

Searching for a connection he could nurture, Glass focused on Bowie’s words, and ultimately discovered the seed of his symphony. “The writing was remarkable,” Glass concluded. “It was someone who had created a political language for themselves.” So Glass stripped “Lodger” of its music until only the lyrics remained. Then, Glass says, he “reset the…

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Kim Gordon: ‘Women aren’t allowed to be kick-ass. I refused to play the game’ | Music | The Guardian

December 17, 2018 W A

Thurston and I didn’t look at each other once, and when the song was done, I turned my shoulders to the audience so no one in the audience or the band could see my face, though it had little effect. Everything I did and said was broadcast from one of the two 40ft-high on-stage video…

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G.E. Smith on touring with Bob Dylan

December 13, 2018 W A

“The whole thing was a dream” I bet.

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