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14 Dec 2022 Conversations with Tyler John Adams on Composing and Creative Freedom
“I think just for pure musical experiences, those albums — the White Album and Abbey Road — were really the peak of their artistic achievement.”
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…Sergeant Pepper or Abbey Road — which are you more likely to put on? [laughs] Let’s see. I think Abbey Road was really just the great period. Sergeant Pepper had a lot of provocative stuff in it. It had the synthesizer for the first time, and it was very frankly discussing psychedelic drugs, so it was very popular with my generation. I think just for pure musical experiences, those albums — the White Album and Abbey Road — were really the peak of their artistic achievement. What do you see as the peak of Miles Davis’s career?…
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