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Album sleeves as lifestyle statements and 5 seconds that made Phil Manzanera a fortune
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The all-seeing telescope of truth scanned this week’s rock and roll heavens and noticed a few patterns emerge, among them …
… the real story of the writing of Layla and who nicked what from where. And who didn’t get paid.
… why Sally Grossman was on the cover of Bringing It All Back Home.
… album sleeves with overflowing ashtrays that screamed ‘welcome to my bohemian world!’ – Soft Machine’s Third, Man’s Rhinos, Winos + Lunatics, Back Street Crawler …
… album sleeves that said “meet my girlfriend!” – McDonald And Giles, the Madcap Laughs, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Love Chronicles, the Paul Simon Handbook …
… album sleeves suggesting the powerful aphrodisiac of music and the allure of ‘the bachelor pad’ …
.. our night out at a Leo Sidran show and what we’ll expect – indeed insist upon - at all gigs in the future.
… when rock stars read 12th Century Persian poetry.
…the time Lucinda Williams toured with Dylan and Van Morrison and never met either of them.
… the glorious squalor of ‘70s flats.
… “comedy is tragedy at a different speed”.
… mentioned in despatches: Sharleen Spiteri, John Mellencamp, James Burton, Bobby Whitlock, Daniel Kramer.
The Everly Brothers’ Walking The Dog. Is that the original Layla riff at 2.20? …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=072OpLw-l_s
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