Maggoty Lamb goes behind the barricades in rock writers' class war

Journalists would have us believe it's public-school leavers v the salt of the earth in the battle of the charts. Is that really the case?Baroness Warsi was right to speak out. Mumford-phobia really has passed the dinner-party test. The unanimous approval which greeted Jon Savage's recent pithy description of Mumford & Sons as "Tory rock-lite" was a measure of the antipathy which currently hangs over these waistcoat-wearing pseudo-troubadours. And that was before they'd inveigled Bob Dylan into ...

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