Old music: The Left Banke – Desiree

Brian Wilson wasn't the only symphonic pop genius at work in the US in 1967. Head east from Los Angeles to New York, and sample the brilliance of Michael Brown One morning last spring, I was summoned to one of London's less affordable hotels to sit at a breakfast table with Barry Weiss, one of those very powerful, very rich men who get bored about five words into any sentence uttered by anyone else. He's one of the executives who run Universal, the world's biggest record company, and the reason ...

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