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November 27, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: I Love Them

Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac and Prince,
VU, James Brown and Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder,
Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Neil
Young, Miles and Coltrane, Ennio Morricone,

Brian Eno, Charlie Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Suzanne
Vega, The Beach Boys, Carpenters, Beethoven and
Mozart, Jeff Beck, Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, and
of course Aretha Franklin. Sonic Youth and Led Zep,

Little Feat and The Band. Elvis. Little Richard. Jerry
Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Yoko Ono, Pink Floyd and
some Tangerine Dream, some Kraftwerk, Keith Jarrett,
Nick Drake, Tears For Fears, Cyndi Lauper and more.

Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, Grace Jones, Bob Marley,
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Abbey
Lincoln, The Roots, Midnight Oil, Split Enz and Schnell
Fenster, Swingers, Specials, Elvis Costello, B.B. King.

Nina Simone, Tom Petty, Leonard Cohen, Marvin Gaye,
James Taylor and Carole King, Karen Dalton and Bryan
Ferry, John Fahey and Lucinda Williams. Van Halen.
Emmylou Harris. Mark Knopfler. Phil Collins. Oh, and

Genesis too. Frank Zappa, Ween, TISM, Daniel Johnston,
The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Muddy
Waters, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Rich, Max Roach, Michael
Nyman, Donny Hathaway, and, yeah, there are some more…

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