Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

Most of us recall a song we felt so passionately about we would have stood on an assembly hall stage and read its lyrics aloudAt the end of every Christmas term, my secondary school would stage a variety performance in the same hall where we held morning assembly and band concerts and the occasional French exchange disco; a vast, half-lit room, its air full of echoes and dust and the leaden smell of chips from the canteen next door. The Christmas variety show was a much-anticipated event on...

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