"... Right at 1 a.m., he was greeted by a magical locomotive — chugging along so rhythmically that it almost seemed to dance, flipping gray buildings it passed into psychedelic colors — for his regular dose of peace, love and ‘Soul Train.’ Because ‘Soul Train’ was the only show, besides ‘Sesame Street,’ that he was allowed to watch as a child, and because Thompson, who you might better know as Questlove, grew up into the sort of adult who relies on an extensive knowledge of music to make sense of the world, his childhood memories are impossible to separate from which episode of ‘Soul Train’ was playing at the time. The two are knotted together so intricately that the archive of the show and the archive of his brain are the same. ...”
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