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Michael Watts

Michael Watts was Melody Maker's US editor for much of the 1970s. He’s since been an editor at the Financial Times, the Independent, the Evening Standard and Esquire. He now writes for Wired, Conde Nast and anyone else who’ll have him...

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Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Simon & Garfunkel, Frank Zappa: Tom Wilson: The Man Who Put Electricity Into Dylan

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, January 1976

TOM WILSON is an elegant, very tall (6ft 4in) black American, a former Harvard man who talks a little like Bill Cosby but whose pencil-thin ...

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