“I’m going to show you my new gong – check it out!” Laurie Anderson is giving a new friend a tour of her flat on New York’s west side, jiggling through the corridors with her laptop. In a north London living room, Róisín Murphy is in her glasses, grinning, leaning into the screen. “I needed a gong to just bong, you know,” Anderson explains. “I really needed to beat a gong once in a while!”
At 74, Anderson remains the American queen of avant-garde art-pop. She recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of O Superman – her astonishing vocoder-led hit, inspired by the Iranian hostage crisis, technology and the operas of
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