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Recommendation of the month (March): Oliver Sacks' "Musicophilia" is a fascinating book on the neuropsychology of how we listen to, appreciate and create music. Like Sacks' earlier books (e.g. "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"), it is both accessible and detailed as Sacks presents a series of case studies of individuals with neurological disorders. Here are people who overnight became obsessed with creating music, others who lost the ability to hear melody; those with perfect pitch and those who lost their sense of pitch altogether; and those with synaesthesia, the bizarre tendency to see sound as colours, and so on. What some readers may object to is that Sacks and his case studies almost exclusively focus on classical or traditional music. We get no examples of rock musicians with neurological disorders, but I think we can safely assume the workings of the brain will be the same whatever the musical form. |
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| Project | Billy Sherwood | Tony Kaye | Alan White | Geoff Downes | Steve Howe | Rick Wakeman | Jon Anderson | Chris Squire | Trevor Rabin | Jay Schellen | John Wetton | notable others |
| Yes |
Oliver Wakeman;
Benoît
David |
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| CIRCA: |
on
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1st album used material co-written with him | Jimmy Haun | |||||||||
| Yoso |
now left
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Bobby Kimball; Haun |
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| Psy-Op (Conspiracy spin-off) | Bruce Gowdy; M Sherwood | |||||||||||
| An All-Star Salute to Christmas | ||||||||||||
| Asia |
Carl Palmer | |||||||||||
| iCon |
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| The Anderson Wakeman Project | ||||||||||||
| Next John
Wetton solo album |