Every month, team Legacy will curate the essential online pieces for you to read, watch and listen to.

This June, we bring you a short essay on Bob Dylan’s imperial phase of 1965-66;
a time portal into the Second Summer of Love with a classic Simon Reynolds interview with the Stone Roses;
six lifelong punks look back on their wild heyday;
a 1996 interview with the Manics in the build up to Everything Must Go
and a dip into the BBC Archive, with a chaotic Hendrix performance on the Lulu Show, and Carole King performing “A Natural Woman”.

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Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand” – The New Yorker

“Dylan was exploding with things to say and sing. As he later acknowledged, it was as if he were taking dictation from somewhere, from somebody…

“I couldn’t go on doing what I had been,” he said later. “I was pretty wound up before that accident happened. … I probably would have died if I had kept on going as I had been.”

Never Mind the Bus Pass: Punks look back at their wildest days

“Punk had a purpose. Every gig would benefit something: a rape crisis centre, a donkey sanctuary, an old people’s home. It was positive. We wanted a nice world to live in. Only, this time, we weren’t asking – we were telling…”

The Stone Roses, interview in Melody Maker, June 3rd 1989 by Simon Reynolds

“We’re all anti-royalist, anti-patriarch. Cos it’s 1989. Time to get real. When the ravens leave the Tower of London, England shall fall, they say. We want to be there shooting the ravens. ”

Manic Street Preachers – Read Their Classic ‘Everything Must Go’ NME Interview From 1996

“You can’t really fault Nicky, James and Sean for wanting to change their situation – choosing bouts of normality over chaos, plugging for optimism rather than self-immolation. Behind them lies an awful, unanswered lyric: “from despair to where?” Part of their job now is to respond to that poser….”

WATCH!

Jimi Hendrix is pulled off the air on ‘Happening for Lulu’ in 1969

Carole King sings “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”