Ok it's Stephen King but still, this creepy old guy manages to stay relevant. Recently in Entertainment Weekly, he wrote about music. He grew up in a small town that got only one radio station. Worse yet, that station played a lot of Perry Como. As pop and rock slipped in to the playlist, King found his bony feet moving to the new sound of Jerry Lee Lewis. The young geek's life was transformed.
Though EW held him to one page in the mag, which must have been tough for the high priest of blabbity blab, he managed to make good points without going all "The Stand" on us. One in particular says it all. "The best rock isn't about thinking, but about being on fire and delighted to burn".
Well said Mr. King, now get back to your IBM selectric and write something that will give us all emotionally damaging, horrible nightmares.
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