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May 20, 2014 by Tim Riley

Guest Butler Joe DePreta, a New York marketing consultant and writer on cultural trends, is a student of musicology from Sinatra to the Sex Pistols.When I was a kid, my friends and I sat on a park bench and debated and talked over each other like a Robert Altman ensemble about the important hierarchies of the musical meritocracy. Beach Boys vs. Four Seasons. Hendrix vs. Clapton. To a handful of vociferous fifth graders the wining point of view was acutely important, and musical factoids were more relevant than Shakespeare or the Yankees. To convert someone by your rationale was better than a trophy. Album covers and liner notes were biblical…

via Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music, The Definitive Life | HeadButler.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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