Can you change the history of music in 2 years? Normally not. Unless you’re Lou Reed, your rock band is called The Velvet Underground and your producer is Andy Warhol. Like most masterpieces, The Velvet…
Chasing the beetle is the English slang to describe the act of smoking heroin. Although it seems a heartbreaking love song, one of Blur’s most famous single is mainly the tale of a drug experience. But…
Haruki Murakami’s favorite word is music. In Kafka on the Shore it’s mentioned 91 times, and the same happens in many of his other famous books. In literature, normally words are what really matters, but in his…
The Man who Sold the World is a song written by David Bowie (although many continue to think that it was by Nirvana) that, after years, still remains enigmatic. Why? Let’s start from this verse: …
In the early 1970s, Franco Battiato was a globetrotting young author with a passion for filming and sound experimentation in the round. Today it is known for the ability to give the sacred aura, magical…
4 May 1979-11 July 2016: two historical dates for the recent history of the United Kingdom. In these two days, respectively, Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May have become Prime Minister, the only two women who…
