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Jim Powell

British novelist & historian

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Desert Island daydreams

February 3, 2019February 10, 2019Jim Powell

The chances are that I will never appear on Desert Island Discs. But just in case, and like many people, I have spent odd moments over the past ten years thinking about the eight records I’d choose if I was.   Continue reading →

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Themes and cadences of writing

April 24, 2016May 1, 2016Jim Powell

I remember once reading an article arguing that every song-writer made recurrent use of a particular series of chord progressions, individual to the writer. They might not be unique – there is, after all, a finite number of chord progressions – but they were distinctive enough to define each song-writer’s work.   [read more]

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