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I always thought "Let It Bleed" was a superior sounding piece of work [[the precise sounds in the opening to Gimme Shelter for starters). Knowing Mike was knocked out by it raises my estimation of it...

Good to know. He shunned me for a while for suggesting a couple of Four Tops tunes beat out most classical vocal performances. He was passionate, opinionated, crotchety as hell, some times mean and...

Mike could never understand how anyone could listen to Motown or any other pop at the time once they had understood Bach. Bach was just better, in his view, in every possible respect. MIke's...

That is the clearest all-in-one explanation Mike has ever done. Thanks for that. I am surprised, in going through the long transcripts and e-mails between us that in general he had no interest in how...

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Real name: Paul McGrath. I have been writing about music in Toronto since 1976, for The Globe and Mail newspaper and for CBC Radio and Television.
There are extraordinarily...