Letters to the Editor
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Nik Cohn said it best
Nik Cohn is best known nowadays as "the guy who wrote the magazine article that inspired 'Saturday Night Fever.'" However, before that he was a British rock critic whose "Rock from the Beginning," published in the late 1960s, was an iconoclastic take on virtually all pop-music styles and the artists who sang them on both sides of the Atlantic from roughly 1955-68. His analysis of the Pepper-era Beatles was quite skeptical, even harsh, considering the haigiographic attitude of most of the entertainment media of the era. His conclusion was that, for all the "artistic" virtues of the album, it may not have been an unmixed blessing in light of the pretentious art-rock that followed and the unraveling of the Fab Four themselves.
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