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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Whatâs with Florence + the Machine?
Description: One of my favourite movie lines of all time comes from a 1982 Peter OâToole film called âMy Favorite Yearâ⌠OâToole plays a movie idol named Alan Swann who is reduced to appearing on a variety tv show of the 1950s⌠a junior writer named Benji Stone is put in charge of babysitting Swann⌠âjust keep him out of trouble,â his bosses sayâŚ
Naturally, it doesnât go well and they have a fight when Swann grows angry when Benji insists on the hero worshipâŚthen Benji replies:
Whoever you were in those movies, those silly heroes meant...