Mark Oliver Everett, singer of the band Eels, during a concert.Tamara Rozas / EFE
It is not without its crumb: what for many is considered the first conceptual album in the history of popular music deals with a sentimental break.
It is as if heartbreak, that damn demon, was not only the main engine of music composition but the concept most treated and handled by all kinds of artists.
The album in question is
In the Wee Small Hours
, a Frank Sinatra masterpiece released in 1955. An enveloping album with Frankie's nightly voice singing the sorrows for his break with ...
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