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Harry Styles Dons the Costume of Classic Rock

The One Direction singer’s solo debut is earning him new respect for a dutiful nostalgia trip.
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In the recent on Harry Styles, the ur-rock-reporter Cameron Crowe describes the Jamaican studio where the One Direction member’s solo album was recorded as “something like a Caribbean version of Big Pink,” referring to the house where Bob Dylan and The Band once collaborated. Another studio Styles used reminds Crowe of the house in The Beatles’s It’s repeatedly mentioned that Styles grew up listening to Pink Floyd’s . Also of note: Styles dines near Laurel Canyon. He wears sunglasses like Kurt Cobain’s. He once gave a carrot cake

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