Old music: The Carpenters – Goodbye to Love (Live at the Palladium)

Going to see the Carpenters might have been a badge of shame – until they started playing and the magic beganThe Carpenters have never really been cool. Not now, not then, not ever. So on the day I went to see them at the London Palladium in November 1976 I wasn't exactly shouting my attendance from the rooftops. Back then I liked to think (mistakenly as it turned out) that I was pretty cool – preferring the Band to Bread, Santana to Sweet, and the Mahavishnu Orchestra to Mud.So what was I d...

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