{"product_id":"2940045435666","title":"The Live Lady of Down Town","description":"\u003cp\u003eStart playback: 1967, London, the Roundhouse, the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave, Unit Delta Plus, the Lady. Live.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelia Derbyshire is Helen AmeriKKKa, electronic superstar, goddess behind the spacey sound of Doctor Who, accidental mother of a sonic genre, and bookish idol to frenzied teen devotees of the UK and the USR and Nippon and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelissa is sixteen, American, and exploring for an opening. On a winter visit to London, with a studied-Brit cousin as her sherpa, everything opens for her. The clanking brass service robots are merely charming; the real attractions are the slang, the drugs, the mods, the rave, the sounds: banging around and making an experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerbyshire makes. Through dragging, breathing, distorting, repeating--repeating, repeating, repeating--layer upon layer, reel upon reel, she makes a noise. Makes a culture. Makes an experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave, with a million damaged stars making her, she makes Melissa, she makes it all happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert N. Lee’s “The Live Lady of Down Town” is a trip to a 1967 that largely wasn’t, a tribute to the ecstasies of youth and electronic music, an exploration in experience and vice-to-the-versa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwitch sides. Reverse playback. Helen AmeriKKKa’s new record is dropping.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert N. Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082744086768,"sku":"2940045435666","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045435666_p0.jpg?v=1763976039","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045435666","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}