The sound of music at 60

Musical: The Sound of Music Curve Theatre, Leicester ...

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It was 1965 with bells on, the year the singles charts got wilder, heavier, druggier. Twelve months of traumas, transgressions and transvestism, experiments and explosions. How 20 revolutionary platters from 1966 revealed "the secrets of space and time". "Intensity was the keynote," says JON SAVAGE.

MY my, we could never let the sheer joy and exuberance of ABBA’s smash hit musical “Mamma Mia” go. In the 26 years since the show launched in London’s West End, it has become a global phenomenon. Some

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