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Karlheinz Stockhausen

Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 4 March 1972

COMPOSER, MYSTIC, visionary, a prophet for the Age of Aquarius. There he sits in the portrait gallery on the front sleeve of the Sgt. Pepper album, right next to Lennie Bruce and close to Aleister Crowley, both prophets and visionaries in their own way.

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