Crawdaddy! Founder Paul Williams 1948-2013
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1artturnerjr
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/28/showbiz/paul-williams-obit/index.html
Don't know if anyone else here is a fan, but I for one always enjoyed Mr. Williams' erudite and passionate criticism. Whether he was writing a piece about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or a Beatles single, I always knew that Paul would bring new insight and a new perspective to my reading of the work. I'm going to miss him; if you take it for granted that The Rolling Stones and Theodore Sturgeon are now taken as seriously as Miles Davis and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you should, too.
(Also posted in Book Talk)
Don't know if anyone else here is a fan, but I for one always enjoyed Mr. Williams' erudite and passionate criticism. Whether he was writing a piece about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? or a Beatles single, I always knew that Paul would bring new insight and a new perspective to my reading of the work. I'm going to miss him; if you take it for granted that The Rolling Stones and Theodore Sturgeon are now taken as seriously as Miles Davis and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you should, too.
(Also posted in Book Talk)
2artturnerjr
io9's piece on Williams:
http://io9.com/r-i-p-paul-williams-pioneering-music-journalist-and-p-461838276
http://io9.com/r-i-p-paul-williams-pioneering-music-journalist-and-p-461838276
3dukedom_enough
I have, and highly value, the Sturgeon complete short stories, which we owe to Williams. I haven't read the rock criticism, but the rock fans I know admire it a lot.
4artturnerjr
>3 dukedom_enough:
I haven't read the rock criticism, but the rock fans I know admire it a lot.
Yeah, I do, too - not just for the quality of the writing, which I found to be consistently quite high, but also for the fact that rock criticism (and/or serious writing about post-Elvis Presley popular music) would very likely not exist if it were not for him.
I haven't read the rock criticism, but the rock fans I know admire it a lot.
Yeah, I do, too - not just for the quality of the writing, which I found to be consistently quite high, but also for the fact that rock criticism (and/or serious writing about post-Elvis Presley popular music) would very likely not exist if it were not for him.
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