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Why the U.K. Got Absurdly Good at Rock & Roll

Simon Reynolds, TIDAL, 21 July 2023

For decades, Britain introduced one monumental rock and pop act after another and transformed global cultural history — all with a population about one-fourth the size of the United States'. How did this phenomenon come to be? And does it still exist?

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