Sublime

PKD’s musical tastes began to broaden during this time. He would never lose his interest in classical music but during the sixties he got into rock music, including the Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead and Country Joe and the Fish. In California in the 1960s, hand in hand with rock music went drugs. People were experimenting wi

Ce n’était vraiment pas mon genre de musique, mais j’étais émue de voir Neil Young, car sa chanson « Ohio » avait fait une forte impression sur moi. Elle semblait cristalliser le rôle de commentateur responsable que devait tenir l’artiste, car elle rendait hommage aux quatre jeunes étudiants de Kent State qui avaient perdu la vie au nom de la paix.

That’s what “Heartbreak Hotel” did to me. It was the first time I’d heard something so stark.

What made us like it was when Otis Redding covered it. With that and Aretha Franklin’s version, which Jerry Wexler produced, we heard what we’d tried to write in the first place. We