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Captain Beefheart, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Frank Zappa, The Kinks, more

March 1, 1971

LICK MY DECALS OFF - CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - STRAIGHT

Gazing across pop music’s stale horizons, past all the cynical ineptitude, pseudo-intellectual solemnity, neurotic regression and dismal deadends for great bands, there is one figure who stands above the murk forging an art at once adventurous and human: Don Van Vliet, known to a culture he’s making anachronistic as Captain Beefheart.

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