ALAN LOMAX
The man who created a ‘global jukebox’ for us all
Just before the turn of the millennium, there was one album that seemed to follow me everywhere. From nightclubs to cafes, from TV shows to the ads in between, an unlikely marriage between creakily recorded blues and gospel ballads and glimmering electronic beats. Moby’s multiplatinum-selling album Play, perhaps owing to the fact that all 17 tracks were eventually commercially licensed, was at one time inescapable.
