- The Observer, Sunday 19 March 2006
www.boywhoheardmusic.blogspot.com
In the future, every pop star will have his or her own blog, but trust Pete Townshend to be ahead of the game. This site is neither diary nor polemic, but a cyber-novel in progress (actually, just completed) reprising themes Townshend has obsessed over since the Seventies, when he first, uh, foresaw the internet. Here he captures that moment in 1971: 'Network? What the young man foresaw was more solid than a mere net. It was as permanent, as immovable, as unchanging as a metal lattice. It was a Grid... The stinking, polluted atmosphere of the future.'
Into this dystopic hippy vision, Townshend weaves themes of drugs, rock, madness and reincarnation, plus a spot of sexual abuse in the Sea Scouts. Getting through 23 chapters of it may prove hard work, but there is a chronological precis. Neil Spencer
See also: http://mchammer.blogspot.com/2006/02/history-i-wont-give-up.html
No Rock'n'Roll Fun revels in the bigger pop picture, sniffing out the most ludicrous news stories .
http://prancehall.blogspot.com
Simon Reynolds' thought-provoking musings on all manner of subjects.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer
The Observer's own blog with the latest from OMM and much more.
