"DOES IT MATTER THAT "MICHAEL JACKSON" IS,
AHEM, ECCENTRIC?".
"The Richards Rule".
"06.03.2009. "I have been having a longstanding debate with my colleague Oliver Kamm concerning the biographies of great artists. Oliver suggests that it is not necessary to know about the life, the behaviour or, say, the politics of artists in order to appreciate their art. I do not agree".
"I have cited in the past, The Beatles". "It is clearly the case that understanding the political impetus behind their songs and knowing what they were doing when they recorded it enhances enjoyment and understanding. He sees my Beatles and raises me a Shostakovich. Well I see his Shostakovich and raise him a Michael Jackson".
"It is impossible to appreciate or enjoy Jacko in the same way as it was when - say - he sang so gloriously in the Jackson 5. Hardly anybody who listens to him now does it without his biography influences the way they listen".
"Melding what we think we know of the artist's life with what we are hearing in his music is a natural human reaction. It's what we do. Anything else is an incomplete account".
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