Category: Music

Pop Music—The Year It Peaked and Why It Declined

It’s long been said that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Decades ago, my mother was visiting my sister and me in Boston. As my mother was a professional artist, as well as an instructor in art history at private schools, she wanted to visit the art galleries

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“Hey, Hey, We’re the Beatles”

Guest Post by Patrick O’Carroll NOTE FROM JAMES PERLOFF—When I was a freshman at Colby College (1969-70), a friend in my dorm called me to his room. He had a lot of sound equipment. He played one of the Beatles’ albums backward. You could pretty distinctly hear a voice repeating

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