Jon Savage on song: Link Wray plays his Ace

The guitarist's 1963 single, Ace of Spades, was insistent, sinister and hypnotic – and it opened a new world of sonic distortion"Electricity comes from other planets," quipped Lou Reed on the Velvet Underground's Temptation Inside Your Heart. Many a true word is spoken in ad lib. When rock'n'roll arrived in the mid-to-late 1950s, it sounded so strange that, for many, the only place it could have come from was outer space. Could Elvis have been anything other than an alien, with that name?...

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