Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Trout Mask Replica
Mike Barnes, 'Captain Beefheart: The Biography' (Quartet), 2000
"If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work." – John Peel (interview with author, 1995)
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