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Happy Birthday that week to: • “If P.M. Dawn came out today they would be Gods,” someone once posted on Twitter, and, as a fan of the group’s avant-garde hip-hop soul sound since the beginning of their careers, I agree. Unlike the closed minds of decades past that had a problem with the cosmic freakiness that Prince Be (Attrell Cordes) and his younger brother DJ Minutemix (Jarrett Cordes) introduced in 1991, new-millennium fans are more open towards experimentation. In addition, artists such as Kanye West and Childish Gambino, who once covered the duo’s wondrous soul track “I’d Die Without You,” have celebrated the P.M. Dawn’s innovation and taken it as inspiration. These days we can hear and see P.M. Dawn’s influence in artists such as Solange, Frank Ocean, and other kooky creatives who have no problem waving their freak flags in stereo. Certainly, as Record Redux book series author and Albumism columnist Quentin Harrison says, “P.M. Dawn’s sound and visual aesthetics always felt like the something from another time and that ‘against the grain’ motif they wielded fearlessly has been taken up en masse by others. At the same time (in the 1990s) acts like Maxwell, Erykah Badu, and D’Angelo (among others) were reaping the benefits of the path P.M. Dawn helped pave for neo-soul.” • William Backer, a major figure in American advertising and a principal creator of one of the most indelible of all commercials, the 1971 TV spot in which a vast and fresh-faced youth chorus sings with guileless enthusiasm, “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke,” died May 13 at a hospital in Warrenton, Virginia. He was 89. The Piedmont Environmental Council, a Warrenton-based conservation group where Backer had been president since 2004, announced the death. His wife, Ann Mudge Backer, said the cause was complications from colon cancer surgery. Advertising has long been regarded as one of the most characteristically American of occupations – a blend of sentiment and salesmanship, of craft and commerce that can at its best rise to the level of art and become a part of the lives and cultural heritage of millions. Among the campaigns that met that description were several for which Backer received significant credit. One enticed much of America to kick back and enjoy “Miller Time.” An aspiring songwriter in his youth, Backer deployed words and music, indelibly linking the softly sentimental strains of “Here’s to good friends, tonight is kind of special” with Löwenbräu in commercials remembered by legions of beer drink
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