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TAKING A WALK ON THE FILMIC SIDE, TRANSITING THE VINTAGE ROADS.
Friday, December 02, 2016
Bobby Vee (RIP) and Buddy Holly: Gentle Idols
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Letter: I’ll always be grateful to Bobby Vee It has long been the norm to dismiss the “teen music” of the early 1960s with a sneer of con...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Chilly Reveries: Strawberry Fields Forever, The Winter Dance Party (told by Dion)
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Through the lens of LSD, Strawberry Fields Forever turned from simple nostalgia into inward reflection. John Lennon's self doubt ca...
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Adam Curtis documentaries, Fifties Nostalgia
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Hypernormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis, is titled after a term coined by the Russian-born Berkeley professor Anton Yurchak to describe th...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Teenage Impersonators: J.D. Salinger, John Lennon, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper
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One reason that J. D. Salinger’s writing can seem juvenile is that it contains no adult sexuality, which is not the case with Mailer, Ker...
Monday, November 21, 2016
Buddy Holly's honeymoon & Philadelphia's American Bandstand
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Buddy Holly and his band, The Crickets, created a template that groups from the Beatles to Nirvana would follow. And it was a Philadelphi...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Buddy Holly & The Picks story
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"Meet Me at the River, Buddy Holly" (2013) by Bob Lapham is a novel, except the prologue and Chapter 13 titled Buddy Holly and ...
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