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Article: Classification - that's the name of the game.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- December 13, 2002
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Byline: ADAM WALTON
THE promotion and marketing of music is a process of reduction. Sexy concept, huh?
Classification works in the natural world. Quite why we had to wait for Darwin to point out the obvious similarities in the origin of many of our species, I don't know. A finch, whether it's a chaffinch, a bullfinch, a hawfinch or . . . erm . . . sorry, my ornithological fount of finches seems to have temporarily run dry - it's a finch, isn't it? Fat beak, likes seeds, flies...
FINCH. Like the Jackson 5, or the population of certain redneck towns in the states, it's obvious they're related. In the natural world of flora and fauna, ...