A Quick One is the second studio album by the English rock band the Who, released on 9 December 1966.

The album's release prompted a full-page, track-by-track review by Chris Welch in Melody Maker, where he enthused it was "incredible" and fulfilled the band's promise. He concluded "here is a collection of compositions and treatments that captures the Who essence, humour, cynicism, nervous drive, violence, and delicacy", and praised every track. - Wikipedia

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The Wind from Nowhere is a science fiction novel by English author J. G. Ballard. Published in 1962, it was his debut novel. He had previously published only short stories.

The novel was the first of a series of Ballard novels dealing with scenarios of natural disaster. Here, civilization is reduced to ruins by prolonged worldwide hurricane-force winds... - Wikipedia

Ballard disowned his first novel as "hack work" but I feel, whilst far from his best, it is still a worthwhile work containing many of his future themes. Read in a beautiful Penguin sci-fi edition with an Alan Aldridge cover.

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