Tuesday, 21 April 2020

Most Queen fans didn’t seem to know or care that their favourite rock star was a homosexual Parsi Indian

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All these years later, it isn’t difficult to see what the young George Michael might have seen in Freddie Mercury. Even if George had yet t...
Monday, 20 April 2020

It was like a medley of best bits from standards that had somehow eluded our ears prior to this point

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Even without seeing what they looked like, it seemed immediately shocking to me that, in 1982, you could have a hit as big as that with a r...
Sunday, 19 April 2020

They talked about innovation and originality, as though these qualities were determinants of listenability

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People who remembered them from before seemed more enthused about the old stuff than their current run of singles. They talked about innova...
Saturday, 18 April 2020

The opening line is the giveaway. I don’t wanna talk

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The speed with which ABBA released ‘The Winner Takes It All’ was telling – just seven weeks between conception and release – su...
Friday, 17 April 2020

A park full of ex-punks spontaneously started dancing to the ABBA song

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In 1997, when the Sex Pistols marked the twentieth anniversary of Never Mind the Bollocks with a reunion show in Finsbury Park...
Thursday, 16 April 2020

Sadness is soaked into the fibre of every Greek song that isn’t trying to sound like an American or British song

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Sadness is soaked into the fibre of every Greek song that isn’t trying to sound like an American or British song. Four centuri...
Wednesday, 15 April 2020

When I say they don’t write children’s television music like they used to, I mean that they literally don’t

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When I say they don’t write children’s television music like they used to, I mean that they literally don’t. The songs we were exposed to w...