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Generally speaking, popular music is the antithesis of abstract. To be popular at all, it must have a large receptive audience, and the most receptive

Modern-day musicians may need to be pretty adaptable to keep their careers afloat, but that flexible mindset has long been in place among players savvy

So revered in the UK that he made the top 50 in a BBC poll of ‘Greatest Britons of all time,’ John Peel (1939-2004) shaped popular culture in ways that Americans may never know or understand. As a pirate radio deejay, a band manager, promoter and cheerleader, print journalist, BBC radio presenter, arranger of recording sessions, record label owner and all-around presence, Peel held the door for the progressive and idiosyncratic to enter rock & roll, be it psychedelia, garage rock, punk, ...

The diary entry for the day his father, Max, died read: "Dear Dad died today." Syd Barrett was 15. In a letter to his girlfriend Libby three days later, he said: "I could write a book about his merits. Perhaps I will some time." He never got to write it. Later this month, Omnibus Press, in collaboration with Barretts estate, will publish the late geniuss collected lyrics in an authorised form for the first time. But who was Syd Barrett? He was the young visionary who wrote eight of the 11 tra...