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Hotly anticipated second albums from the Smile and Olivia Rodrigo, UK tours by L’Rain, Ghetts and Margo Price – plus new takes on Elektra, Simon Boccanegra and more
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Hotly anticipated second albums from the Smile and Olivia Rodrigo, UK tours by L’Rain, Ghetts and Margo Price – plus new takes on Elektra, Simon Boccanegra and more
Personal take on three years when seemingly disparate outlooks happily coexisted. Review by Kieron Tyler
Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 06.04 EDT These days, we think of the period between 1965 and 1967 as one of white-hot musical progress, a dizzying three-year period during which innovation followed innovation, a succession of totemic albums and singles were released and pop music changed irrevocably. But, as Jon Savageâs superb book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded made clear, not everyone at the time was impressed with how things were going. Savageâs research revealed a succession of contemporary naysayers, devoted to âringing the death knellâ as he put it: 1966 â...