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“Anything is possible, but I’m not sure we will like it” – The story of an indefinite lockdown

ByMassimo Usai27/10/2020

There are events that, for one reason or another, I had forgotten or removed from my head. Let’s say that maybe, over the years, if specific memories have not been stimulated in any way, your memory selects and deposits in a remote corner of the brain. You may not

ByMassimo Usai04/10/2020

ByMassimo Usai27/09/2020

How did I come across Pink Floyd? One afternoon in 1974. Inside the cinema hall of the railway station in Alessandria in hallucinogenic fumes that only years later I realized that Marlboros were not what the people were smoking. It wasn’t an easy love for Pink Floyd.

ByMassimo Usai20/09/2020

In 1973 I was 13 years old. I had casually invested with a love for “committed” music just a short time ago. I am curious and listen to everything. In 1973 it meant that when you discover an artist, you have to recover the previous years of the same artist.

ByMassimo Usai13/09/2020

When I bought her album, I had on my mind some favourable reviews read in few magazines the day before. They were good reviews but none (with hindsight) had truly expressed what I felt inside record when I put on. Let alone therefore as an “amateur” like myself

ByMassimo Usai06/09/2020

There are inexplicable things sometimes. Mark Hollis’s story is one of them. In the 1980s, with his group (I Talk Talk) he had reached heights of commercial success that opened the doors to an Olympus of fame and wealth that is difficult to give up. Mark Hollis, with

ByMassimo Usai30/08/2020

There are albums in the history of popular music that is defined as “basic”. They are often essential in the history of the artist I’m considering today for the “album of my life”. Still, they are usually fundamental in the general

ByMassimo Usai23/08/2020

Chet Baker has a voice like no other. Very very distinctive. It seems that you either love him or can’t stand him. I LOVE him. This record it’s a compilation. Was realised in 1994 from the Pacific Jazz and it will be the only compilation you will find in my list

ByMassimo Usai20/08/2020

ByMassimo Usai16/08/2020

Wake up, you sleepy headPut on some clothes, shake up your bedPut another log on the fire for meI’ve made some breakfast and coffeeLook out my window, what do I seeA crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to meAll the nightmares came todayAnd it looks as though

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“Anything is possible, but I’m not sure we will like it” – The story of an indefinite lockdown

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