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  Marianne Faithfull 1946-2025

  By Harvey Kubernik   Singer, songwriter, actress and author Marianne Faithfull passed away on January 30, 2025. In 2000 I discussed Faithfull with her first record producer Andrew Loog O

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  Chasing the White Light: Lou Reed, the Telepathic Secretary and Metal Machine Music

  By David Holzer   Fifty years ago, Lou Reed released Transformer. In among “Walk on the Wild Side,” “Make Up” and “Vicious,” cuts that would launch a cartoon Rock N Roll Animal pers

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Welcome to Ugly Things Magazine, the ultimate rock & roll read, bringing you wild sounds from past dimensions, from times when rock & roll was young, daring, dangerous and vital. Passionate, informed, insightful, in-depth coverage of the overlooked music of the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s & beyond. Now in our 41st year.

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FLOWERS IN THE RAIN: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE MOVE by Jim McCarthy

(Wymer, 2024, 403 pages) Review by Alan Clayson Because I found Jim such a nice bloke during correlated e-mail correspondence, I don’t want to give his diligently-researched work a rubbishing. Yet it has to be said that, perhaps through ham-fisted sub-editing, sentences are often split up. Like this. Which may prove irritating. So might factual and syntactic repetition, and, in the process...

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