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Stephen Pieper
| May 17, 2019
'It had to be raw and dangerous' – Def Leppard, Saxon and Venom on 80s British metal (the Guardian)
Inspired by punk’s energy, the new wave of British heavy metal helped put the ‘snot and piss’ back into rock music. Forty years on, its leading players tell the story

This brought back some memories. The comments are terrible as usual. There is literally no subject that grown men won’t moan about on The Guardian (or elsewhere for that matter).

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Stephen Pieper
| April 22, 2019
My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair | Carole Cadwalladr (the Guardian)
For more than a year, the Observer writer has been probing a darkness at the heart of Silicon Valley. Last week, at a TED talk that became a global viral sensation, she told the tech billionaires they had broken democracy. What happened next?
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Stephen Pieper
| December 24, 2018
Geddy Lee on Rush's greatest songs: 'Even I can barely make sense of our concept albums' (the Guardian)
With widdly-woo guitars and albums about mythic priests, Rush became the biggest cult band in North America. Frontman Geddy Lee picks out his favourite songs from their back catalogue

I take issue with “widdly-woo” but a good article/read.

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Stephen Pieper
| April 3, 2018
Old music: Robert Wyatt – At Last I Am Free by George Chesterton (the Guardian)
In which a hero of the English counterculture embraces the hedonistic disco of Chic, and plays a blinder

An old article that I missed. One of my favourite cover versions.

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Stephen Pieper
| May 28, 2017

Liked: The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki review – delightful, mysterious Finnish comedy | Film | The Guardian

Here is a treat and a delight: this lovely film from Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen is a gentle, shrewd, somehow mysterious love story, based on real life, beautifully photographed in luminous black-and-white and drawing inspiration from Scorsese and Truffaut.

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