GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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New releases from Winds Of Change: Progressive Sounds Of 1973; Robert Jon & The Wreck; John Fusco
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
Winds Of Change
Progressive Sounds Of 1973
Esoteric
★★★★
ANOTHER four-CD set when album-oriented rock dominated record sales, with legions of gig-goers, dedicated radio shows like Sounds Of The Seventies, pre-punk Top Gear, TV’s Whistle Test and record companies ran progressive labels such as Vertigo, Harvest, Charisma and Deram.
But it wasn’t all Spinal Tap-styled pomp-rock with semi-orchestral music such as ELP’s Jerusalem or ELO’s In Old England Town or even winsome, trippy numbers.
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