Matthew Sweet explores the dawning of the age of Black Aquarius – the weirdly great wave of occultism that swept through British popular culture in the 1960s-70s. From journals like the Aquarian Arrow to the diabolical novels of Dennis Wheatley, lurid accounts of satanic cults in the Sunday papers and the glut of illustrated books, part-magazines, documentary film and TV drama, it was a wildly exuberant seam of British pop culture.
BBC Radio 4 – Archive on 4, Black Aquarius (via savage-america)
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Also I’m secretly hoping it’s power-pop icon Matthew Sweet hosting this.
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It is. Midway through the show, he breaks out the harmonies and there’s a seven minute guitar solo by Tom Verlaine.