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The rock'n'roll funeral

Writer David Hepworth on pop music's struggles with authenticity. The rock and roll funeral. Does pop music have any place in the great ceremonies of life and death?

Writer David Hepworth on pop music's struggles with authenticity.

5/5. Recently David was asked to programme the music for the wake after the funeral of a colleague. Now he wonders whether, despite the public demand for Robbie Williams' Angels and Frank Sinatra's My Way, pop music really has any place in the great ceremonies of life and death.

A Trevor Dann's Company production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3.

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Fri 15 Mar 2019 22:45

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