BBC NEWS | Magazine | What pop music tells us about JG Ballard
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tamaranthHis science fiction of the almost-normal - based around suburbia and urban hinterlands, fixations on celebrity and car crashes - became best known through the film Crash, and the surreal semi-autobiography Empire of the Sun.
But his feverish imagination, stoked by pre-lunch whisky and sodas in his study, found an unlikely appeal among pop musicians - many of whom liked to invoke a bit of Ballard in their work.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | What pop music tells us about JG Ballard
But his feverish imagination, stoked by pre-lunch whisky and sodas in his study, found an unlikely appeal among pop musicians - many of whom liked to invoke a bit of Ballard in their work.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | What pop music tells us about JG Ballard
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