Sublime

Depending on the quality of our earbuds, we might not notice what’s missing, but Young considers MP3s the Wonder Bread of music, stripped of the upper and lower frequencies that give songs their richness and depth. “People can’t get what they need from listening to music anymore,” he said, “so it is dying.” I wouldn’t go that far. Much of the healt

THE SKY TURNS dark. Dean sucks a toffee as the Beast passes through Pease Pottage, a village less quaint than its name. “If I had to choose one gig, it’d be Little Richard at the Folkestone Odeon. ’Bout ten years ago. Bill Shanks took us. Bill owns the record shop in Gravesend and sold me my first proper guitar. He drove my brother Ray ’n’ me and a

Compared to Domino, Little Richard, musically and stylistically speaking, was coarse, uncultured, and uncontrolled, in every way harder for the music establishment to take. Among the white rock ’n’ roll singers, Elvis Presley was similarly outrageous compared to his predecessors Bill Haley and Pat Boone.

Artie Shaw,

Billy Strayhorn, Bill Challis, and Sy Oliver, worked almost entirely behind the scenes.

The distinctive characteristic of the country rock “Sun sound” was aggression, but curiously the target was enigmatically vague. The importance of the music, for the singers and for the audience, was that it effected a release of violent feelings, not that any particular group was attacked.