Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
The way that Curtis could draw out a song was just great. And the musicianship that compliments it here is outstanding. It’s totally natural. His roots are in gospel and I love gospel. So the songs are built up gospel style but not with any preachiness. And his introductions are great as well. The version of ‘Mighty Mighty Spade & Whitey’ is simply magnificent.
The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg
Jeffrey Boakye argues that the banning of Blue Story by two cinema chains shows how in the UK black art is held to different standards to everything else, and "a reminder of just how poised society is to reject blackness on the assumption that it can be a corrupting force"
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