Above all else:
Talk Talk for making the most sublime music ever. I expect these guys to be canonized one day.
Tom Waits for showing that exquisite beauty can be made with components that in themselves are ugly as sin.
Meat Loaf, Led Zeppelin, The Kinks and quite a few others for accompanying me to loads of bonfires at the beach and wild rides in cars when i was young.
U2 for showing me that commercialism is the Shite. Not through any of their lyrics, but simply from growing to be the biggest band in the world.
Vaughan Williams for connecting it all ..
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