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“You’re not pretending to be something you’re not…” Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks, 1966-2018

Evelyn McDonnell on Turner’s new memoir

“…I didn’t want to make it look like an an uphill trek,” Tina Weymouth tells Carrie Courigan in Paper

“…He’s playing squash without a ball,” Nicholas Baker on Saul Steinberg (NYRB) in the NYTimes Book Review

“…A lot of the smartest stuff [writing on music] is done by journalists…” Robert Christgau to Greil Marcus in Rolling Stone

“The normalization of holograms might actually hurt the dead celeb industry…”

Tina Turner’s bookstand: “Jackie Kennedy is my role model…”

“Holy shit, human beings are fucking miracles!… really majestic animals…” Neko Case talks to tapeop.com about WOMANPRODUCER…

New vistas in pretentious twaddle: comedian Lenny Kravitz shills Dom Perignon…

Altamont has ripened into its own conundrum, both as history and cliché, prophecy and sinkhole…

Vince Gill Redeems the Eagles…

Wesley Morris, Daphne Brooks, and Robert Christgau on Aretha Franklin…

“Shape-shifting is hard work whether it’s chosen or imposed. Idol, scourge, martyr, a man gripped by hubris or madness; a utopian visionary…” Margo Jefferson‘s new introduction to On Michael Jackson.

Appearances

2018
November 28, 11 am
WBUR Boston/NPR
On Point, #whitealbum50

November 8-11
Monmouth University, NJ
The White Album:
50th Anniversary Celebration
“Producing an Enigma for the Ages”

2017 June 1-4
University of Michigan
Sgt. Pepper at 50 Conference (see FB page)
with Ken Scott, Kenneth Womack and John Covach

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