Sublime

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.

There were four in Joy Division – Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris – but Ian was their eyes and ears: it was he who propelled them into uncharted territory – songs like ‘Dead Souls’ which, cold as the grave, has the infinity of a Gustave Doré hell.

Hitchcockian protagonist,

(Sasha Shulgin, who died in 2014, was a brilliant chemist who held a DEA license allowing him to synthesize novel psychedelic compounds, which he did in prodigious numbers. He also was the first to synthesize MDMA since it had been patented by Merck in 1912 and forgotten. Recognizing its psychoactive properties, he introduced the so-called empathog

If importance in popular music were measured in terms of imaginativeness, creativeness, wit, the ability to translate a variety of experiences and feelings into musical form, and long-term influence and reputation, Chuck Berry would be described as the major figure of rock ’n’ roll.