The Birth of the Microgroove
Barry Humphries remembers the end of the era of 78rpm and Randolph Sutton giving his last performances at the Metropolitan Musical Hall on Edgware Road in London.
Barry Humphries recalls his first job working at a major record label in Melbourne in the early 1950s during an historic time in the music industry. The era of 78 r.p.m. was over and the 1950s were the Age of the Microgroove! Also, Barry remembers his arrival in London on 1st June 1959 when there was a sense that London was a city on the verge of change. He arrived just in time to catch Randolph Sutton giving his last performances at the Metropolitan Musical Hall on Edgware Road before it was pulled down to make way for the West Way and just before a new generation made their mark on British theatre in the 1960s.
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HUTCH
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Gertrude Lawrence
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Roy Fox & His Band
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Randolph Sutton
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Randolph Sutton
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Randolph Sutton
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Spike Milligan
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Charles Penrose
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Elsie Carlisle
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