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Stephen Pieper
| January 28, 2020
‘Always finding nice things in a tragic situation’ - Robert Wyatt at 75 (Morning Star)
MILES ELLINGHAM meets the unique left-wing singer with his partner and muse Alfreda Benge at their Lincolnshire redoubt

My On This Day page reminded me that it’s Robert Wyatt’s birthday. Here’s a new interview with him in The Morning Star.

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Stephen Pieper
| January 27, 2020

I got this little hi-res music player. It sounds great but the user interface would have been considered crap fifteen years ago.

Cowon Plenue D2

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Stephen Pieper
| January 20, 2020
BBC Radio 3 - The Listening Service, Beethoven Unleashed: Getting to grips with Beethoven from BBC
He's the most famous composer in Western music but what makes Beethoven Beethoven?
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Stephen Pieper
| January 12, 2020

My original copy of Rush’s 2112. I got this as an end of term school prize. It’s nearly forty years old and still in decent condition.

It’s not my favourite Rush album but it brings back memories, good and bad, of those days.

Rush album - 2112

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Stephen Pieper
| January 11, 2020
Love remains, though everything is lost | Philip Wilding | Writer, Journalist & Radio Producer (Philip Wilding | Writer, Journalist & Radio Producer)
Memories fall towards you sometimes, like brown leaves out of the blue of the sky. The thunder of drums coming through the wall backstage at a long defunct outdoor arena on the outskirts of Nashville. The eve of the R30 tour, myself, Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee mid-interview, I’d already spoken to Neil in his dressing room across the hall, seated next to a drum-kit the size of which can best be described as ominous.

Beautiful and moving tribute to Neil Peart. I’m still coming to terms with this.

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Stephen Pieper
| January 11, 2020
Rush's Neil Peart: unassuming, thunderous drummer who became a music legend (The Guardian)
The Rush drummer, who has died at 67, was worshipped by fans and beloved by friends
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Stephen Pieper
| January 9, 2020
Doors drummer John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison’ (the Guardian)
When he was at the centre of the US counterculture, he lived in terror of his bandmate. Yet after the singer’s death, he fought ferociously to protect his legacy. But, he says, he still regrets not calling out Morrison on his abusive relationships with women

This is really good. I’ve always really admired John Densmore’s refusal to sell out to advertisers.

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Stephen Pieper
| December 27, 2019

This is really very good despite the garish cover.

A Hidden Landscape Once a Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the British Music Press from the '60s to the '80s... by those who made it happen.

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