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A new biography of the great Robert Wyatt reveals the musician’s commitment to all that’s nourishing and seductive in culture and politics, says JOHN GREEN
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ROBERT WYATT’S gloriously bearded face stares out like an Old Testament god from the cover of this book.
But its seemingly judgmental and deadly serious expression conceals a man of great generosity and tolerance, with a prodigious talent and mischievous wit.
Once a minor star in the celestial heaven of popular music, Wyatt metamorphosed to become an iconic, widely admired and influential pater familias of popular music.
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