Kevin Ayers: Bananamour
Simon Frith, Let It Rock, August 1973
IN ART THE avant-garde is the outrageous. Its what breaks traditional rules, both artistic and social; John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, or whoever, outraged their audiences.
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