Joe Boyd interview

Here’s a very short interview I recently conducted with the daddy of ’60s music production for my university final major project magazine.

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When you wish upon a sitar

Ask someone to recommend you some songs that best sum up the ‘spirit of the Sixties’, and most will fall into one of three camps.

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Wilson syndrome

So it’s been a long time coming, but I think I might (finally) ‘get’ Pet Sounds.

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Vote for Policies

Buried under all the other news today, you may have heard that Mr. Brown has asked Her Maj for permission to dissolve Parliament and set a date for the upcoming general election (the 6th of May, fact fans). “I know that!”, I hear you cry, “but who on Earth am I supposed to vote for?” Well, funny you should ask, because some bright spark has just come up with a website telling you exactly that.

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Summer with Monika

Up until today, I was fairly sure poetry just wasn’t my bag, but I’ve just a heard a track by a couple of cheeky Scousers that may have made me consider changing my mind.

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