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The Most Influential Pop Musician of Whom We Hear Nothing

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The Most Influential Pop Musician of Whom We Hear Nothing
Eumir Deodato de Almeida is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger, and record producer, in a file photo. Public Domain
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The year was 1974 and the Disco revolution was in its infancy, seeking to displace the sloppy alienation of mainstream rock with clean, danceable music, technological sophistication, and new sounds. On the radio appeared a funky rendering of Richard Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” a work named for the 1885 philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]