Jon Savage takes a tour through Captain Beefheart's back catalogue

Don Van Vliet shouldn't be seen as a 'weirdo' – he had pop tricks up his sleeve and his most difficult music entered the top 20There's one Captain Beefheart song that I haven't been able to get out of my head since his death was announced. Sue Egypt (from 1980's Doc at the Radar Station) has many of the Captain's trademarks: sudden rhythmic breaks and twists, otherworldly sounds, a super-killer slide riff and vocal pyrotechnics taken into another dimension.The whole track explodes with energy,...

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