Lovely quote from Alan Moore about Charles Shaar Murray: The best and near enough the last of his incendiary generation of English music-writers, Charlie Murray’s fuse-wire frame represents a living branch of counter-cultural history, bushy with hipster erudition and an insightful compassion that is practically his trademark. From his origins as a subversive High Court school-kid, through his tenure at the NME during its most exhilarating era to his brilliantly-wrought and crackling studies of Hendrix and Hooker and his vinyl-noir fictions, he’s provided the endlessly smart, informed and funny commentary for two or three generations of young would-be bohemians trying to penetrate the tinsel undergrowth of pop in search of a functioning underground. A genuinely sweet man who has written with heart, clarity and energy about legends to the point where he’s become one, and one of the few individuals older than thirty who has earned the inalienable right to wear a leather jacket, Charles Shaar Murray is an ornament of his profession and his epoch. Cool as a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:45:31 +0000
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