Inky Fingers: Maggoty Lamb tries to keep cheerful in the grim reaper's looming shadow

The recent passing of several much-loved musicians reminds us that the obituarist's art is to make writing about death seem life-affirmingAs 2010 draws towards its halfway point, the time seems right for an excursion into the kind of broader strategic thinking currently unfashionable in British music journalism. The first defining feature of the last six months would seem to be that the grim reaper has been both exceptionally busy and horribly selective. While Ryan Adams, Chris Brown and Louis W...

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