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The pop manner has become respectable, pop matter is suspect. In the mass media too the revolt has turned into a style.
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The mistake which most critics make is to persist in trying to evaluate pop culture as if it were something else: the equivalent of insisting on considering a bicycle as if it were a horse.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
August 17, 1926
Died:
July 5, 2007
(aged 80)
Bio:
Alan George Heywood Melly was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for The Observer and lectured on art history, with an emphasis on surrealism.
Known for:
Revolt Into Style: The Pop Arts (1970)
Don't Tell Sybil (1997)
Scouse Mouse (1995)
Hooked!: Fishing Memories (1999)
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