Bugger Las Vegas - Couverture souple

Wilson, Ada

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798642054437

Editeur : Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

1.5 million pints and 500,000 basket meals.This is the amount of food and drink that once theoretically needed to be shifted to cover the costs of transporting a revue by the female impersonator Danny La Rue from the Palace Theatre in London to Batley Variety Club for a three-week run back in 1973. According to The Daily Mail, at least.Why Batley? How did simple optimism and aspiration allow a little town in West Yorkshire – a little town that was no more than a clump of blackened terraces and mills and had always been something of a poor relation even compared to its immediate neighbours – suddenly start comparing itself to Las Vegas? It’s no accident that the club opened its doors in 1967, when the young, in more connected places at least, were ushering in the Summer of Love and a new technicolour age was saturating the world in general. Through the astounding canon of popular songs that were created just from 1967 until the end of the decade alone, the era can lay-claim to possessing the most nostalgic tug. It has transfixed the many generations who have come after it, and continues to do so to this day, possibly in a way no other period has. The story of Batley Variety Club tugs with the same force, only crab-like, from an unexpected angle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798642054437
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 237
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