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Francis Newton [Eric Hobsbawm] Under the pseudonym Francis Newton, the distinguished Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm used to write a regular column in the New Statesman as its jazz critic Occasionally his interest would stray from the blues to popular music, as this article on the Beatles illustrates. The last set of artists, the Chicago team whose captain is Muddy Waters and whose headquarters is Smitty's Corner on the South Side, represented the blues of the Forties and Fifties, recalling (especially with the sterling Memphis Slim) the era of boogie-woogie, or anticipating (with Muddy Waters himself) that of rock-and-roll.
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Beatles and Before
Francis Newton [Eric Hobsbawm]
Under the pseudonym Francis Newton, the distinguished Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm used to write a regular column in the New Statesman as its jazz critic Occasionally his interest would stray from the blues to popular music, as this article on the Beatles il...See the full content of this document
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