End-of-year music lists tell us little about music

However considered or thoughtful they are, end-of-year lists don't say much about the way we have relished music over the last 12 monthsDancing Pete comes sliding across the floor. He is 70 years old today, wearing a smart shirt, smart trousers, and twisting in his stockinged feet while the band plays Brass in Pocket. It is Friday night in the Staffordshire village of Barton-under-Needwood (neither relation nor appeal), a community of some 5,000 people nestled somewhere between Burton upon Trent...

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