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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
When I was 16 or 17 my hobby was Olympic pistol shooting. I won the Finnish Masters, maybe twice. When I went to these competitions, my father was the driver. There were two parts [to the competition]. I shot at the first part. Then I went to the car and I slept, and I listened to Roy Harper’s Stormcock every time. Then two hours later, there was the second part of the competition. That was my whole summer.
In our fiftieth antidote to the algorithm, David McKenna takes us back half a century to Naples, where the influence of a nautical culture and American military radio created a music scene as fertile and chaotic as the city itself
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