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Music

1976 and all that

18 August 2016

1:00 PM

18 August 2016

1:00 PM

Forty years ago, I spent 14 hours in a large field near the A1 in Hertfordshire.

I had just taken my O-levels, liked Be-Bop Deluxe, Genesis and Rachmaninov, and often danced my head off to The Who’s ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’. I was confused about girls and worried that I’d chosen one wrong A-level (Ancient History).

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