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Claudine Longet and All Her Shades of Grey

Claudine Longet, a French singer/actress who got somewhat famous, but also infamous, in the US has been almost all but forgotten by the general public. But there’s a lot to her story, from her marriage to the '60s superstar Andy Williams, friendship with Bobby Kennedy, a prominent murder trial, and more.

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The Go-Betweens: The Greatest Band That Never Made It Big

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The Go-Betweens produced some of the most mutant, evocative intellectual pop, that never succeeded at the time it was made, but lingers on til this day.

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My Name is Albert Ayler and I Play Fire Music

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Albert Ayler, never getting the wider recognition he truly deserved, unleashed a free-form musical exploration that went beyond the boundaries of jazz or any other music that included everything he experienced musically – from church spirituals, New Orleans and Army brass music, to world folk forms, to free improvisation – any and all of these themes, often all at the same time.

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Scott Walker: From Pop Pap or (Pap of Pop) to Beating The Avant-garde at Their Own Game

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The number of pop artists that have chosen to go avant-garde is extremely small, but none went so far as Noel Scott Engel, a guy from Ohio better known as Scott Walker. The British daily “Guardian” aptly put it, he is “Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen.”

Claudine Longet and All Her Shades of Grey

The Go-Betweens: The Greatest Band That Never Made It Big

My Name is Albert Ayler and I Play Fire Music

Scott Walker: From Pop Pap or (Pap of Pop) to Beating The Avant-garde at Their Own Game

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