We sometimes forget that Susan Boyle and the other talent-show sensations aren't the first musical stars to be created overnight by the mass media. Master Ernest Lough, for instance, was a fresh-faced sixteen-year-old treble singing at the Temple Church in 1927 where HMV recorded Mendelssohn
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We sometimes forget that Susan Boyle and the other talent-show sensations aren't the first musical stars to be created overnight by the mass media. Master Ernest Lough,... more info