Last year, he earned acclaim for his first album of new material for 18 years, The Bravest Man In The Universe, which was produced by Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn and XL Records founder Richard Russell.

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Bookended by Allen Ginsberg's "Howl, " that decade's anthem, and Tom Wolfe's "Masters of the Universe, " the exhibition is a fast ride from the dropout generation to the material age.

WSJ: When the Outrageous Became Mainstream

The analysis of the CMB data, released last Thursday, indicates that only 15.5% of the Universe's matter is what we would call "normal" - that is, the atomic material from which planets, stars and galaxies are built.

BBC: Planck telescope: A map of all the 'stuff' in the cosmos