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Robert Christgau
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Robert Christgau

American music journalist
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    …(1967), which esteemed rock critic Robert Christgau called ā€œthe most beautiful song in the English language.ā€ Veering from the group’s early garage rock, the Kinks’ mid-1960s songs featured a jangly folk-rock and orchestral pop sound that would be a huge influence on the Britpop music of bands of the 1990s…

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    …(1967), which esteemed rock critic Robert Christgau called ā€œthe most beautiful song in the English language.ā€ Veering from the group’s early garage rock, the Kinks’ mid-1960s songs featured a jangly folk-rock and orchestral pop sound that would be a huge influence on the Britpop music of bands of the 1990s…

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