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Sonic boom

Author: Simon Sellars • Jan 27th, 2009 •

Category: Ballardosphere, music

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The first question from journalist Martin Conrads about J.G. Ballard’s short story The Sound-Sweep put [Bill] Drummond immediately on the defensive (”I don’ know it”), where he stayed for the next half an hour deftly deflecting all questions with charm if not aplomb.

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  1. TimC on January 27th, 2009 at 9:55 pm:

    He should have asked Trevor Horn -
    “Ballard was a big inspiration at the time – Video Killed the Radio Star came from a Ballard story called Sound Sweep in which a boy goes around old buildings with a vacuum cleaner that sucks up sound. I had a feeling that we were reflecting an age in the same way that he was.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/nov/05/1

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