Andy Gill died today. I'm sure you don't know who he is, but here's a brief obit . And here's some stuff I wrote about his band Gang Of Four -- a band I was lucky enough to see in 2005 when the original members reunited for Coachella , back when that was a thing -- for my History of Rock & Roll class. One of the things I love (and miss) about the F2F version of the History of Rock & Roll class is breaking down a song or album in more detail, and there are more than a few fertile pockets in rock and roll history -- such as U.K. post-punk from 1978 to 1982 -- that I loved using class time to unpack in greater detail. I wanted to focus on one particular album from that epoch in detail, an album that is one of the best start-to-finish debut albums of all time. That album is 1979's Entertainment! by Gang Of Four , and you can listen to the whole thing here: There have been plenty of think pieces about the importance of Entertainment! as a post-punk docume