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| | Weeping Angels: The Music of the Durutti Column by Robert Jarrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | The first LP, the ironically titled The Return of the Durutti Column was released over twenty years earlier in 1980 and was the first album released on the notorious Brit label, Factory Records, which introduced some of the best experimental music during its inception (Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, New Order, A Certain Ratio). |
 | | Factory, as well as the Durutti Column, demonstrated that basement King Crimson, vacuous 70s melancholy, and introspective lyricism could coexist alongside the angst ridden anarchy of late 70s Britpunk. |
 | | Because I was suicidal, and I was seriously and dangerously ill.” Vini Reilly has been ill most of his life, and this may have impacted the Durutti Column’s lack of commercial success, as Reilly for the most part has been unable to tour on a large scale. |
| www.headlightjournal.com /print-issues/issue-01/content/durutti-column/weeping-angels.html (1064 words) |
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