“Black people knew they were Black.”
+ Handmaid's Tale hope & drama at the Turkey Leg Hut
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found: in my mixed-up files
[because there’s a lot of half-written, notes-y stuff in my g-docs]
How to explain the Phil Spector and Ronettes’ saga. Dude has always been overrated. He benefits from the best personal log-line1 in rock history: “The Wall of Sound.”
“Be My Baby” was recorded by the Ronettes in November 1964 and produced by Spector. “Bigger, …
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