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With his raspy, debonair yelping croon — one of the more distinctive voices of the post-punk era — Richard Butler has always been part Rat Packer, part Johnny Rotten. Friday night at New York City’s Irving Plaza, the singer staked out a logical middle ground, leading his longtime band the Psychedelic Furs through an encore cover of the Roxy Music classic ‘Pyjamarama.’
Although the Furs formed in 1977 and started life as a punk act, the Londoners eventually morphed into something more, purveyors of “melodramatic popular song,” to borrow an oft-used (and oft-ironic) MySpace genre descriptor. In that sense, ‘Pyjamarama’ is the perfect cover for the Furs: an artsy, swanky pop nugget that set the template for many of their own hits.
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