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Has ecyclopaedic knowledge of music and impeccable taste
If you like Country than I'm sure he's right up your street, fair enough.
But the fact is he was sacked by the BBC entirely because of his inability to embrace new styles of music.
The New Wave was the final straw, but he had been rubbishing new styles and genres for years before. His famous "Mock Rock" quote describing the New York Dolls sticks in the mind.
He's admitted himself in recent years that his conservative attitude to rock music ruined his career.
As an aside, I was told something about them in confidence which I will not divulge but which makes me think very, very highly of them; absolutely top blokes.
I can’t quite decide if it’s awful or a work of genius - or both. You really need the original Richard Harris version for the full effect. I like it whichever it is...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The Harris version is... interesting. Completely bonkers. Definitely not awful.
It's such a weird simile I can't believe the two usages are not connected, and Auden coined the phrase about the same time Jimmy Webb wrote MacArthur Park. So I reckon either Webb nicked it from Auden or vice versa. They are both great wordsmiths so who knows.
By the way if anyone is thinking "you should get out more" may I remind you we are still in lockdown. This is exactly what Covid 19 does to you..
U.K. number 8 in 1977 ( what happened to punk eh) and also used on The Muppets and The Benny Hill Show, I don’t think Mayo got it back into the charts despite how many times he played it. But it started life on the soundtrack of an Italian soft porn film in 1968. Just an oddity.