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Darwin: cchh..chch…changes
…Of course, Darwin’s theory was not immediately accepted by all scientists, either; in England its opponents were lead by Sir Richard Owen, superintendent of the natural history department of the British Museum, while in America the chief protagonists for and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Albert Einstein, Alfred Wallace naturalist, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, David Bowie, Emma Wedgewood, Henri Rousseau, Louis Agassiz, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sir Richard Owen, Thomas Huxley
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iggy: genius of action. raw action
by Art Chantry: one of the things i love so much about iggy is that astonishing mind of his. i’m not saying he’s an intellectual genius (although he actually seems to be in interviews). or that his mind is broken … Continue reading
illness as style
By Art Chantry: David Bowie, the only rock star to ever take celebrity and turn it into a deep illness as a pure style. does that make sense? sometimes i felt like bowie’s images were way more important than his … Continue reading
“something sweet about life”
An argument in favor of reviving common sense…. Someone once mentioned to Dr. Samuel Johnson a certain person who claimed to see no distinction between virtue and vice. To which Johnson replied: “If he does really think that there is … Continue reading
first strummings
by Art Chantry: Jimi Hendrix and Billy Cox in the Army. david bowie in 1963 (one of his early bands).
a space oddity
by Art Chantry: everybody loves david bowie. he’s the ultimate statesman of the weirdo brigade. he’s a guy who has been there, done it, got the tshirt, and cashed in. he has more indie cred than anybody earth – so … Continue reading
senior showtime
Paul Hamilton: SENIOR SHOWTIME High Wycombe is a satellite town of London and it was there, at Bucks New University’s Students Union building on Thursday 8th March 2012, Producers played the last of their nationwide sprint of college gigs. The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged ash soan, David Bowie, Godley & Creme, grace jones, graham gouldman, lol creme, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, paul hamilton, paul hamilton bisonics, ronnie corbett, steve lipson, The Producers Music Group, trevor horn
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buggles on basing street
by Paul Hamilton ( http://www.bisonics.net ) Trevor Horn makes for a diffident, somewhat baffled front man. Looking like Ronnie Corbett with an ice cream on his head, he engages with the audience like a slightly mad old uncle who’s walked … Continue reading
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Tagged anthony newley, ash soan, David Bowie, Kate Bush, lol creme, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, paul hamilton, paul hamilton bisonics, ronnie corbett, Stanley Kubrick, steve lipson, The Producers, The Producers Music Group, trevor horn
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norman the negotiator
Naughty Norman. Not really. Unconscious of what he was doing, or in the grip of forces otside his control. Not likely. Ostensibly, it was a play on innocence, but it was effectively not much different than a J.D. Salinger, Isaac … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, David Bowie, Doris Day, Francis Bacon, Frank Capra, Hieronymous Bosch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J.D. Salinger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Mickey Mantle, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Sigmund Freud
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back to walden pond
Rockwell. Norman Rockwell. Kitsch. Sentimental. He helped define American popular culture in a manner almost as influential as Walt Disney. His recreation of a phony artificial world that never existed. A fantasy world tailor made for the peculiar form that … Continue reading