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I first heard Brian Eno’s surrealist masterpiece “Baby’s on Fire” as an actual baby, more or less: it was one of my parents’ household staples. For years I moved through life under the very confident ...

The first guitar that mattered to me was not mine. It was my dad’s: a regular‑guy acoustic in the corner of the office/playroom, strings a little dead, wood a little scuffed, transformed into a magic ...