Dreaming the Beatles
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
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I’m not a Swiftie (nothing against them! some of my best friends are Swifties!) but this summer I was sad not to be, because the collective ecstasy of the Eras tour looked so delicious and so important, and collective ecstasy is perhaps the thing I miss most about being A Person Who Loves Music. After all, I once wrote a whole book about the power ... See more
Lauren Bravo • Hey Mr DJ, put a podcast on
But our charter changed for a little while. We were trying to make sense of Jimmy’s theory of the five-second read: if a song doesn’t grab you within that short span, it’s not going to grab you at all.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
The mystery of whether Thomas Pynchon heard “Space Oddity” before writing the last hundred pages of Gravity’s Rainbow is one of those questions I never stop asking myself.