Old music: Herbie Hancock – People Music

People music somehow manages to express an entire decade in seven short minutes of syncopated grooving, sweet melody, angry stabs of funk and then glorious noise People Music was the first tune I properly listened to after my illness. Not the first thing I heard, but the first thing I really listened to, the first thing that went in and stayed there. At the time, it had yet to be decided whether I would recover or not. I listened to People Music and knew I would live. It is an impossible song to...

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