From a portfolio of photographs of London messengers by Michinori Aoki:

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Bicycle Music Today BBC Radio 4 aired a fascinating programme on music inspired by the bicycle. “Ever since the bicycle was unveiled at the Paris exhibition of 1867, it has inspired music of all sorts, from the earliest classic Daisy Daisy, to saucy songs by Betty Bolton, or the Bicycle Aria in the Opera ‘Fedora’, from Mungo Jerry ‘Riding Along On A Push Bike, Honey’, up to the computer music of Kraftwerk. “Cyclists and writers Alan Bennett and Dervla Murphy, and sportsmen and Tour De [...]