Daily Newsletter, October 30, 2025

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Ljubinko Zivkovic
October 30, 2025

Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Real Life Rock, California magazine, November 1982

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Deconstructing the greatest pop song chorus of the 1960s

A band in a slump, a demo song nobody wanted, and a new bass player with no experience as an arranger. The result: one of the defining pop classics of its time.

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All this and Ian McShane too: Grace Jones' Slave To The Rhythm at 40 | The Quietus

Keith Kahn-Harris still doesn't quite know what to make of an audaciously experimental, sometimes problematic Grace Jones (& ZTT) LP.

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Five Things We Liked This Week – 26/09/25

Further Listening: 5. adults Aren’t Crying It’s Just Been Raining On Their Faces South London is a fertile breeding ground for the DIY indie-punk sound, but few do it better than adults…

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Emmylou Harris interviewed: “I was faced with a conundrum”

Emmylou Harris talks about collaborating with Daniel Lanois, covering Tom Petty, co-writing with Kate and Anna McGarrigle and more...

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3 Massively Underrated Bands From the 1970s That Should Have Been Famous

These massively underrated bands from the 1970s should have been substantially more famous than they were.

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The man who left Fleetwood Mac to join a paedophilic cult

A look at the wild story of how cult and cult-like thinking affected Fleetwood Mac, via Jeremy Spencer leaving the group for The Children of God.

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The song Steely Dan's Donald Fagen once gifted David Crosby

David Crosby was a lifelong fan of Steely Dan, so for his last album, 'For Free', he collaborated with his musical hero, Donald Fagen on 'Rodriguez For A Night'

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Francis Ford Coppola Tries to Offset ‘Megalopolis’ Box Office Flop by Auctioning Off a Custom $1 Million Watch » LIVING LIFE FEARLESS

Following the disastrous box office flop of his dream project, Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola is auctioning off one-of-a-kind watches.

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The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed - Public Books

The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.

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Numero Discover Weekly

Playlist · Numero Group · 30 items · 3.1K saves

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