Not the ‘Cunard Yanks’: The real origins of the Beatles’ R&B covers
The merchant seamen from Merseyside known as “Cunard Yanks” are commonly credited with bringing back from the US the black…
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Fifty years since ‘Something Else’ (Or the decline and fall of the Kinks)
On the evidence of singles sales, 1967 represented the high point of the Kinks’ popularity and commercial success. The year…
An overdub has no choice – the Monkees and the making of Pleasant Valley Sunday
By Bob Pitt Half a century ago, on 10 July 1967, the Monkees’ single Pleasant Valley Sunday was released. Their…
Examining the nightingale’s code
C.P. Lee, Like the Night: Bob Dylan and the Road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall, Helter Skelter, 1998. Paperback, 190pp,…
Marxism and the jazz revolution
Frank Kofsky, John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960s, Pathfinder, 1998. Paperback, 500pp, £15.45. Reviewed by Bob Pitt FRANK…
The Maoist propaganda songs of Cornelius Cardew
By Bob Pitt The recent publicity over the disturbing events in Brixton, among a group of people originating in a Maoist collective…
Miles Davis: “The most brilliant sellout in the history of jazz”?
Miles Davis, The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions, Columbia C3K 65362 (3 CDs) £34.99; Live at the Fillmore East…