Tag: Hugh Glover

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The vault might seem to connote a sense of authority, visions of round doors, time locks and bank currency or rows of booklets and stacks of boxes whose contents have been carefully packed away. Yet musically the prising open of a vault can prove a cacophonous and contentious affair. What should be scrapped or saved for posterity, who gets...

In the spring of 1971 the release of What's Going On saw Marvin Gaye switch things up with a song cycle written from the perspective of a Vietnam War veteran, who returns to the United States to find a country in the throes of poverty, racial enmity, drug addiction and environmental degradation. A clarion call for the vulnerable, heartsick...