As we Twittered/Tweeted(?) yesterday, the passing of JG Ballard resonated both in the music world as well as the literary world.
There is a decent article here talking about Ballard’s influence on music, by looking into some of the fantastic music it inspired. The Manic Street Preachers were also into him too, it appears.

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