By: Adam McGovern

Not just a magic spirit but also his own changeling.

By: Gary Panter

Without him, The Sixties as we know them might not have happened.

By: Devin McKinney

He served the Beatles’ music with unfaltering skill and imagination.

By: Jerrold Freitag

Takin’ ev’ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.

By: Brian Berger

She thrived in any musical context: jazz, blues, hokum, pop.

By: David Smay

As big as Bing, but he died in obscurity.

By: Devin McKinney

Music as volatile as bare wires, as raw as a flayed body.

By: Devin McKinney

He gave an embryonic rock‘n’roll its supernatural cred.

By: Matthew De Abaitua

The exegesis has just begin.

By: Anthony Miller

He asks us to do some deep thinking about music and creativity.

By: Brian Berger

Freed by burnt cork, he became a phenomenon.

By: Brian Berger

He aimed to liberate America aesthetically and socially.

By: Katie Hennessey

For a guy with no sense of humor, he sure is funny.

By: Jerrold Freitag

Arranging and rearranging was his witchcraft.

By: Brian Berger

“Santa Claus Is A Black Man.”