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A lot of people can’t appreciate a record like Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” on purely ideological grounds. Some (you find this breed mostly in England) believe rock is a bloated, senile zombie, a crystallization of all that’s wrong with capitalism, and that only in black and Third World musics does genuine proletarian expression (the only valid music, it goes without saying) manifest itself.