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California Dreaming: 1941

[A note on sources: Where most of these essays have multiple sources, almost all the information here comes from Alyn Shipton’s masterful Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter, with a little from Andrew Sandoval’s liner notes for the RCA album … Continue reading

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Harry Nilsson: The RCA Albums Collection

Today was the official release date (though I received my copy yesterday) of The RCA Albums Collection, a 17-CD set of pretty much everything Nilsson recorded during his short but incredibly productive career. While the average listener only knows Nilsson … Continue reading

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Monkee Music: Head

A revised and improved version of this essay appears in my book Monkee Music, available as paperback, hardback, PDF, Kindle (US), Kindle (UK) and ePub (all DRM-free). And so we come to the last album the four Monkees would all … Continue reading

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This week’s spotify playlist

Can be found here. Hello, incidentally, to those of you who’ve come over to this site after a bunch of us used Twitter to do naughty swears on the Telegraph website, if any of you have stuck around. Fill Your … Continue reading

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