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Letter From Britain

Is Disco The Real Avant-Garde?

My favourite record company in England, Virgin Records, is the home of lost souls.

August 1, 1976
Simon Frith

Is Disco The Real Avant-Garde?

My favourite record company in England, Virgin Records, is the home of lost souls. It's a chirpy company, surviving on the sales of Mike Oldfield who doesn't speak but inspires immense love and respect here as a Real Composer, the 70's Edward Elgar. A gentlemanly Rick Wakeman, he celebrates not the death of Empire but the death of grass.

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