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Iggy Pop a déclaré un jour, à propos des femmes : « Aussi intimes qu’on puisse devenir, je les laisserai toujours tomber. C’est de là que vient ma musique. » Cette férocité masculine, cette répulsion vis-à-vis du féminin, c’est le rock’n’roll à son paroxysme. Que l’on songe aux hymnes machistes des Rolling Stones, au punk et sa glorification de l’abject, ou au culte que Can et Brian Eno vouent à la Terre Mère, la rébellion rock masculine s’est souvent ancrée dans un imaginaire où les femmes étaient sinon absentes, du moins allégoriques ou reléguées à l’arrière-plan. …

Pools of Sorrow, Waves of Joy is the debut solo album of Dutch composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen, released under the name Anthony. He sang leading vocals and played most of the instruments himself. However unlike most of his future works Lucassen doesn't play bass, with Peter Vink (future member of Lucassen's band Star One and future contributor of Lucassen's project Ayreon) playing all bass. The name of the album comes from the song "Across the Universe" (by The Beatles), one of Lucassen's favorite songs.

Harry Nilsson worked at a bank and wrote songs on the side, mostly jingles and pop tunes in the mid-1960s. Under contract with RCA, his first record was a flop, but it yielded hits for The Monkees and Three Dog Night. In the late 1960s Nilsson was everywhere: pal to the Beatles (especially John and Ringo); singer of "Everybody's Talkin'," the theme to the movie Midnight Cowboy (1969); singer of the theme to the TV show The Courtship of Eddie's Father; composer of the soundtrack to the animated movie The Point (with its hit single "Me and My Arrow"); and singer of the number one hit, "Without You." …