Travis Elborough

At last, a private education that wasn’t unmitigated misery

Robyn Hitchcock describes how his musical tastes were formed listening, aged 14, to Dylan, the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix on the school gramophone at Winchester

Robyn Hitchcock performing in Newport, Rhode Island in 2021. [Douglas Mason/Getty Images] 
issue 13 July 2024
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