Academy of Pop: exam season

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Paper A: General Paper

14th August 2006

Candidates have all day to answer the following question.

1. 'It's better to burn out than to fade away'. Discuss.

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the ideology of "only the young have talent" -- which the stones OF ALL PEOPLE know is perfectly false, given their early heroes -- lets them totally off the hook, of course: no one expects them to ever be good again, so they don't need to try

interesting exception: p.townshend -- not that his records are much cop lately, but he doesn't seem to have let himself off his OWN hook (despite "hope i die before i get old" etc)

by contrast, in blues and jazz -- and classic soul if not present-day R&B -- as well as composed music, the prizing of the getting of experience and wisdom (technically as much as anything else) remains the default position