Vivien Goldman

bySian Pattenden
February 13, 2025

Legendary music writer Vivien Goldman reflects on her six decades documenting your favourite counterculturalists and why the fight against “the cockocracy” hasn’t ended just yet

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Marvin Gaye ‘Sexual Healing’

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With a palette of Jupiter-8 and Roland TR-808, Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’ is a true electronic trailblazer. The story behind its making isn’t what you’d expect

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Tangerine Dream ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’

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David M Allen

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Sian Pattenden

Marvin Gaye ‘Sexual Healing’

Tangerine Dream ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’

Françoise Cactus

Amnesia, Ibiza

Hawkwind: Space Ritual Tour, 1972

David M Allen

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Janine Rainforth ‘Stretch’

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Vivien Goldman

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