"The call repeats itself into the infinite and liberates the mind of all reasonable inhibitions.... as in drug addiction, a thousand years of civilization fall away in a moment.... Rock & roll is a sign of depersonalisation of the individual, of ecstatic veneration of mental decline and passivity”
- Dr Joost A.M. Meerlo, New York Times, 1957
File under: “Attacks that read as enthusiasm”
ReplyDeleteExactly - this is what Lester Bangs etc thought was good was good about rock'n'roll.
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