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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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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:
  1. Revolt Into Style: The Pop Arts (1970)
  2. Don't Tell Sybil (1997)
  3. Scouse Mouse (1995)
  4. Hooked!: Fishing Memories (1999)

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