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Pop Culture
The 1983 song Paul Simon called better than ‘The Sound of Silence’: “A greater impact”
Growing with every song.
How Kate Bush made ‘Wuthering Heights’ a fixture of pop culture without even reading the book
“I borrowed the book and read a few pages”.
‘South Park’ creators defend depiction of Donald Trump: “It’s pop culture”
“It’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look.”
The artist Gene Simmons called the greatest lyricist in pop culture
“…no other human being has ever had that sound”.
2024 is the new 2009: the Oasis reunion and the sad cyclical nature of pop culture
Round and round it goes…
‘Space Oddity’: the ballad of Syd Barrett and the origin of pop culture’s self-obsessed present
A moon shot to the future.
Jack White on his favourite country songs of all time: “Important for the rest of pop culture”
The homespun side of rock and roll.