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Legacy Reader Digest: June edition

June 14, 2016

Every month, team Legacy will curate the essential online pieces for you to read, watch and listen to.

This June, we bring you a short essay on Bob Dylan’s imperial phase of 1965-66;
a time portal into the Second Summer of Love with a classic Simon Reynolds interview with the Stone Roses;
six lifelong punks look back on their wild heyday;
a 1996 interview with the Manics in the build up to Everything Must Go
and a dip into the BBC Archive, with a chaotic Hendrix performance on the Lulu Show, and Carole King performing “A Natural Woman”.

 

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Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand” – The New Yorker

“Dylan was exploding with things to say and sing. As he later acknowledged, it was as if he were taking dictation from somewhere, from somebody…

I couldn’t go on doing what I had been,” he said later. “I was pretty wound up before that accident happened. … I probably would have died if I had kept on going as I had been.

 

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Never Mind the Bus Pass: Punks look back at their wildest days

Punk had a purpose. Every gig would benefit something: a rape crisis centre, a donkey sanctuary, an old people’s home. It was positive. We wanted a nice world to live in. Only, this time, we weren’t asking – we were telling…

 

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The Stone Roses, interview in Melody Maker, June 3rd 1989 by Simon Reynolds

We’re all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it’s 1989. Time to get real. When the ravens leave the Tower of London, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens. ”

 

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Manic Street Preachers – Read Their Classic ‘Everything Must Go’ NME Interview From 1996

“You can’t really fault Nicky, James and Sean for wanting to change their situation – choosing bouts of normality over chaos, plugging for optimism rather than self-immolation. Behind them lies an awful, unanswered lyric: “from despair to where?” Part of their job now is to respond to that poser….”

 

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Jimi Hendrix is pulled off the air on ‘Happening for Lulu’ in 1969

Carole King sings “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”

Bob Dylan ‘Shadow Kingdom’ Out Now

Bob Dylan ‘Shadow Kingdom’ Out Now

Shadow Kingdom presents Bob Dylan performing revelatory 21st century versions of songs from his storied back catalog — including fan favourites like “Forever Young” and “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue,” and deep catalog gems like “Queen Jane Approximately” and “The Wicked Messenger.”

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HMV Vinyl Week – Releases

HMV Vinyl Week – Releases

We’re excited to be releasing a host of iconic albums as part of HMV Vinyl Week. Happening on 17th June, in-store & online.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s essentials—Like A Rolling Stone, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Hurricane, Every Grain of Sand, Blowin’ In The Wind, Mr. Tambourine Man & more—show why he was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix
Essential tracks from Jimi Hendrix including All Along the Watchtower, Purple Haze, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Fire, Hey Joe and more.
Jimi Hendrix Competition

Jimi Hendrix Competition

Calling all Jimi Hendrix fans, this one’s for you!

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Bob Dylan ‘Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions’ Bootleg Vol. 17 To Be Released January 27

Bob Dylan ‘Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions’ Bootleg Vol. 17 To Be Released January 27

Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 to be released in deluxe 5 disc set on Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings on Friday, January 27th.

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Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969

Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969

The new album, ‘Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969’ is out now.

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Artist Spotlight: Bob Dylan

Artist Spotlight: Bob Dylan

In celebration of Bob Dylan’s Birthday today, he just had to be this month’s Artist Spotlight!

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Celebrating Bob Dylan’s 60th Anniversary as a recording artist!

Celebrating Bob Dylan’s 60th Anniversary as a recording artist!

To commemorate Bob Dylan’s 60th Anniversary as a recording artist of immeasurable musical and cultural impact, a new music video, “Subterranean Homesick Blues 2022,” – featuring a kinetic collage of visuals by a diverse array of artists inspired by the original video’s lyric cue cards – has been launched.

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The solo acts with the most No.1s on the Official UK Chart

The solo acts with the most No.1s on the Official UK Chart

What do all of these artists have in common? They are some of the solo artists that have achieved the most Number 1 albums on the Official UK Chart!

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