Category: Sound and Vison
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Protest Songs – P1 The Cutty Wren.
Introduction One of my A-Level English Language coursework assignments was to write about a subject of my choosing and how it had changed over time. It comedised with my discovering Green Day’s cover of Working Class Hero and its music video featuring survivors of Darfur (which I’ll explore in a later instalment). The impact it…
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He Not Busy Being Born… Is Being Filmed – A Complete Unknown.
Bob Dylan – God, or Judas? Bob Dylan is a notoriously private and cagey character, especially for someone who has garnered such success, a Nobel Prize winner of literature no less. In 2025, James Mangold took on the task of directing A Complete Unknown, giving audiences a backstage pass to the rise of Bob Dylan,…
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I Have Been a 13-Year-Old Girl. The Virgin Suicides – A Sound Track.
TRIGGER WARNING – This essay openly discusses suicide. If you’re experiencing suicidal thoughts, please know you’re not alone, call 116 123 for the UK’s suicide helpline, every lost life is a tragedy. The Virgin Suicides is a cautionary tale, the book, written by Jeffery Eugenides in 1993 and later adapted into a film directed by…
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Frank Sinatra? No Thank You. – Rolling Stones Unseen Exhibition.
Please allow them to introduce themselves. Hosted at London’s Dockside Vaults Rolling Stones Unseen 63′ will give audiences insight to the early days of the band until 10th September 2025. Immortalised by Gus Coral, the shots have finally found their stage after the documentary they were snapped for went unfinished over 60 years ago. Before…
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We Are Rewind Cassette Player.
When I was about 5 or 6, my grandparents gifted me a green Panasonic RQ-CW02 Walkman Cassette player. I didn’t have many cassette tapes, my dad gave me his copy of ‘Revenge’ by The Eurhythmics, one of the two cassettes from Now ’84, and I have vague memories of an Abba album, maybe their greatest…
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Royal College of Music London – Kurt Cobain Unplugged.
In 1989, MTV began the Unplugged series, presented by Jules Shear, it was a chance to hear popular music performed acoustic, think of it as the Tiny Desk sessions of the 90’s. Many of these performances were later brought out as albums usually titled the band’s name followed by ‘Unplugged’. November of 1993 saw Nirvana…