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Freddy Boyd

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Quadrophenia: Townshend Redux

There are a finite number of "Great Moments in Rock Music." But they're an elusive lot--like lists of good movies,


Public Hero Number One

I 'M WATCHING television again. Now that I'm living alone in the city. I've had to tune in on patterns


Song of the South

L OOK AT the album cover. Hard core normalcy at its best. Kids and wives, dogs and roadies, one big


You May Just Have to Break Out...

I GREW UP in the house with singers. In fact, you can call me a prodigy, the point needs little


Simon Says: Diversify

I ASSUMED I wouldn't like Paul Simon. I didn't like Simon and Garfunkel. Arthur was as precious as anyone deliberately


Maybe You Had to Be There

S UCH A GORGEOUS Kid Like Me is a funny movie. Now, The 400 Blows was a zany movie. Shoot


More or Less A Memoir

Lately I've been falling in love with barmaids. If you spend the kind of time in bars that I spend


Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory

T HERE'S SOMETHING about calling a song "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired." It's leading. Critics jump at the chance to


Top of the Pops

I "Everybody's in then biz and everybody's a star." I APPROACHED THE KINKS from ignorance. Not total ignorance but one