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Martin Colyer
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Art Director, Rock's Backpages
London
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My preferred topics are digital health digital transformation and health & wellness.
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By Martin Colyer| Eye Magazine Verified In 1977 Carl Sagan and his team chose blues musician Blind Willie Johnson’s 1927 song, ‘Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground’, as one of 27 pieces of music on the Voyagerprobe being sent into deep space in the hope that it would explain Earth to other life forms in the universe. The song was included, according to Sagan, because ‘Johnson’s song concerns a situation he faced many times: nightfall with no place to sleep.
By Martin Colyer| Eye Magazine UK Verified Top: illustration of ‘Fats’ Waller by Robert Nippoldt from Jazz: New York in the Roaring Twenties. For every lovely touch (audience shadows on the front of Armstrong’s stage, reminiscent of Watchmen), there’s a rather rotoscoped Joe Venuti. For every vivid Manhattan nightscape, there’s a clunkily drawn cornet, not working hard enough for the space it occupies.
By Martin Colyer| Eye Magazine Verified In 1977 Carl Sagan and his team chose blues musician Blind Willie Johnson’s 1927 song, ‘Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground’, as one of 27 pieces of music on the Voyagerprobe being sent into deep space in the hope that it would explain Earth to other life forms in the universe. The song was included, according to Sagan, because ‘Johnson’s song concerns a situation he faced many times: nightfall with no place to sleep.
Company Info
Rock's Backpages
Rock's Backpages is the online archive of music journalism. It launched in September 2001 and is the world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing, a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an ever-expanding collection of over 50,000 articles from the 1950s to the present day, along with a collection of exclusive audio interviews.
London, England, United Kingdom
Founded: 2001