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...It started in earnest with the suffragette play Alice in Ganderland (1911), which drew on what was by then a well-established tradition of Carroll-inspired satire, and you can hear a faint echo of this in...
...It was Sgt Pepper’s. And she pointed to the lyrics and said, ‘It’s a story, from the first word in the first song, to the last note.’ And I went, ‘Wow!’”...
...Lillian Hellman’s stormy play The Little Foxes has everything an opera requires except music, and this Blitzstein supplied in a uniquely American way: the default setting recalls Copland but he also drew...
...By the time they came to record Sgt Pepper, The Beatles had their pick of the world’s most advanced and opulent recording spots....
...Bright Phoebus has been compared to Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for its originality, variety, cast of strange imaginary characters and evocation of a magical Britain....
...But the show starts as early as 1950, when Blake – who has just turned 80 – drew himself in ink and gouache as a “Boy with New Tie”....
...Sgt Joyner boomed. Sgt Joyner regaled the court with stories of how he nicknamed the prisoners Spiderman, Count Dracula, Leon Spinks (?because he was missing some teeth?)...
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