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JOHN CALE IN THE ’70s

In the mid-70s, John Cale released three albums on Island Records. It’s an exceptional period for the artist with a lot to be gleaned from repeated listens.

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Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop

The Stark Reality…Discovers the Hoagy Carmichael Music Shop is without doubt one of the strangest records of the 1970s, a decade of strange. Why?

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Singalongacharlie: The Music of Charles Manson

While everyone knows of ‘Charles Manson’ few have actually listened to his recordings. Music is the glue that sticks Manson to his friends, his fellow travellers, his ‘Family’, his enemies. In this essay, Mark Goodall reflects on Manson in context of his music. This in anticipation of Quentin Tarantino’s Manson movie and Jordan Peele’s Us.

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Power Snatched artwork by L Jamal Walton