Dave Simpson
Music Critic and Writer at Freelance
Music Critic and Author at The Guardian
Guardian music critic. Author of The Fallen and The Last Champions. Yorkshire. https://t.co/7qa04MaOvo
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Dave Simpson
It was the Beatles’ publicist Derek Taylor – who I met backstage at their first concert at the Hollywood Bowl – who first declared “Brian Wilson is a genius” as part of a [1966] publicity campaign. I knew that word would come back to haunt Brian and it did: from then on he was competing in a world of heightened expectations, but he did that very bravely all his life.
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1 week ago |
davecsimpson.wordpress.com | Dave Simpson
Sci-fi’s greatest hunter has just made the jump from live action to animation for the first time for the sixth instalment in the mainline Predator movie series, which features a collection of tales that on an individual level vary in storytelling quality but that as a whole make for a mostly entertaining and intriguing expansion of the mythology of which they are a part.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Dave Simpson
Jon King, singer, songwriterI grew up in a really boring village in Kent, so moving to Leeds as a student was thrilling. It was an A-list place to see gigs. On the other hand, the buildings were as black as soot, the Yorkshire Ripper was around and you could feel the tension between the National Front and the south Asian community. I saw swastikas on walls and on an anti-NF march I was hit with a truncheon by a mounted police officer.
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1 week ago |
davecsimpson.wordpress.com | Dave Simpson
Try to be best ‘cause you’re only a man and a man’s gotta learn to take it. Try to believe, though the going gets rough, that you gotta hang tough to make it. History repeats itself, try and you’ll succeed. Never doubt that you’re the one and you can have your dreams. That’s a succinct description of the plot of the latest big screen entry in an entertainment I.P. I’ve loved since my single digit years and it’s very fitting that those words work to describe it.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Ben Beaumont-Thomas |Dave Simpson
Photograph: Frank Hoensch/RedfernsDavid Gray, singer-songwriterFor all the sophistication that everyone talks about, Brian never loses the thread of the song: the emotion. They have this childlike quality. These days we’d probably say he’s on the spectrum – there’s a sort of Asperger’s type innocence. He makes the lyrics and the melody speak. It’s so welcoming and without edge; it’s not part of a cynical adult world.
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