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...student said that she had learned of the class through an e-mail that the Archeology Department’s undergraduate coordinator Elizabeth Rew sent to the concentration list. She added that she was aware the course was not offered through Harvard...
...band parted ways within a year of Underwater Moonlight’s release. In the U.S., the band never toured the material beyond an eight-day run in metropolitan New York. Following Matador’s reissue of Moonlight, lead vocalist and guitar player Robyn Hitchcock, guitarist Kimberley Rew, bass player Matthew Seligman and drummer Morris Windsor revisited the States as a group for the first time in 20 years, giving many long-time fans the opportunity to hear the material, live and in-person, for the first time ever. The Harvard Crimson recently had the opportunity to speak with...
...with Rob Lamb, Andy Metcalfe and Windsor as Dennis and the Experts, Hitchcock found himself announcing the band as the Soft Boys to a crowd at a Nov. 1976 show. Alan Davies soon replaced Lamb, and the EP Give it to the Soft Boys was released in 1977. Rew replaced Davies, and the 1979 psychedelic Can of Bees LP—clearly influenced by the Bs: Sid Barrett, Captain Beefheart, the Beatles, the Byrds, and William Burroughs—was recorded (Hitchcock has previously described “the Soft Boys” as a Burroughs amalgam of Soft Machine...
...time of Moonlight, the Soft Boys had no idea they’d made a piece of history. Rew, who seems exceedingly modest of his own musical career but pleased with Hitchcock’s organization of the band and the album’s reception, says, “In 1980, I made the album blindly, really, without any thought as to how many people would like it or not like it.” Now he describes the Soft Boys as “the great love of my life.” As to whether...
Hitchcock and Rew have played on each other’s solo albums, and Metcalfe and Windsor later joined Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians. But Hitchcock feels there is an important difference between the Soft Boys and his collaborations with former Soft Boys as a solo artist. “[As the Soft Boys] they broadened the emotional spectrum, if you like, and that’s one of those cases where a group can enhance the work of the songwriter to the point where you say this is actually a performance by the group, rather than...