45 REVELATIONS
A lot of people can’t appreciate a record like Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” on purely ideological grounds. Some (you find this breed mostly in England) believe rock is a bloated, senile zombie, a crystallization of all that’s wrong with capitalism, and that only in black and Third World musics does genuine proletarian expression (the only valid music, it goes without saying) manifest itself.
June 1, 1987