From the archive, 19 April 1975: Can pop music really be the greatest art form?

Stanley Reynolds tries to give modern music a fair hearingFor a whole decade now we have been putting up with the loud and aggressive artistic pretensions of pop music and mainly - and especially if we did not want to seem too outre - we have sat quietly and more or less agreed that Yes, pop music - I mean, look at the goddam poetry of Eleanor Rigby for Christ's sake and how about the Who: wow! - is just the most exciting art form to come down the pipe since, ah, something or other.It would be d...

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