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‘Always finding nice things in a tragic situation’ - Robert Wyatt at 75
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Robert Wyatt: 50 years of uncompromisingly political music that soundtracked apartheid, the miners’ strike and the Palestinian struggle.
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PULLING into the market town of Louth after a two-hour bus ride through the green speckled Lincolnshire countryside, you feel thrown back in time to an earlier England, one that feels very far from the “music industry.”
It seems fitting that for the past two decades this has been the home of avant-garde cult musician Robert Wyatt and his partner Alfie Benge.
Today Wyatt will be 75 — which is something to celebrate, after a six-decade musical career that began as a teenager in the so-called “Canterbury scene.”
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