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When did John Ashbery start making music?
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John Ashbery's first song “Soonest Mended” released on January 1, 1966.
John Lawrence Ashbery (born July 28 1927) is a contemporary American poet. Langdon Hammer, Chair of English at Yale University and author of James Merrill: Life and Art, said in “But I Digress,” a review of Ashbery’s Notes From the Air: Selected Later Poems, that “no figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John... Read More
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