Music Programme Leader Dr Justin Williams was recently interviewed by The Guardian newspaper for their article on blues player Robert Johnson.

Johnson, who died in 1938 at the age of 27, has earned legendary status in the music industry following a revival of his music during the 1960s that heavily influenced the rock and blues guitar players of that era, as well as for the mystery that surrounds his premature death.

Of this enigmatic reputation Dr Williams said: ""Sometimes canons are more about how someone has influenced future music-making rather than their solitary abilities. Dying young is... the ultimate representation of Romanticism."

The full article can be read on The Guardian's website.

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