My Life in Music
Earl Slick
The long-serving Bowie lieutenant on the records that shaped his guitar style: “I’ve always been discovering and rediscovering blues”
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PHOTO:CHUCK LANZA. INTERVIEW: TOM PINNOCK
THE BEATLES
MEET THE BEATLES!
CAPITOL, 1964
The music that first inspired me to play was all coming from England. They were taking the music that Americans paid no attention to and feeding it back to my generation – and this album was the one that got the ball rolling for me. I remember seeing The Beatles on Ed Sullivan on February 9, 1964, when the shit hit the fan for every kid everywhere. I mean, we all had short hair, but whatever little bit we had we all tried to brush it down and have a Beatle haircut the next day at school. We were putting together imaginary bands – none of us played, but we sure did not long after that.