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Bob's Stuff

A collection of articles by Bob Pitt

Music

2023:  Now and Then: A critical analysis

2023:  Why did Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields fail to top the charts in 1967?

2023:  Cynthia Weil and sixties pop

2022:  ‘Give the pop stars a fairer share of the country’s wealth!’ The Beatles and the Taxman

2020:  Not the ‘Cunard Yanks’: The real origins of the Beatles’ R&B covers

2017:  Fifty years since ‘Something Else’ (Or the decline and fall of the Kinks)

2017:  An overdub has no choice – the Monkees and the making of Pleasant Valley Sunday

2013:  The Maoist propaganda songs of Cornelius Cardew

2002:  Miles Davis: “The most brilliant sellout in the history of jazz”?

1999:  Marxism and the jazz revolution

1998:  Examining the nightingale’s code

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