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...changed to suit a singer’s personal vocal style or to fit new words. Playing techniques - whether the guitar or harmonica – were copied and adapted. These were not ‘cover’ versions as we understand them today, but complete reworkings of songs, perhaps only keeping some element of the lyrics or the tune, just as Muddy Waters did with ‘Catfish blues’. This is...

...changes that characterised that era. Profiting enormously during the first half of his life from the progress of industry and having the financial means, he later devoted himself to publicising and practising his social and economic ideas. Most of these derived from Enlightenment notions and, he thought, could eliminate poverty and crime, contributing to social and moral...

...change until some of the sidekick/damsel in distress female characters are elevated to heroes in their own right and writers and directors recognise that just because a character was originally depicted as a straight, white, male, doesn’t mean they have to remain that way. There are several examples of such shifts in superhero comics, although these are often received...