“Rock and roll has a right to exist but only if it is melodious, meaningful and well-performed.” From a 1986 edition of Pravda, quoted in Tony Judy’s ‘Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945.’

(Wouldn’t you like to have been on the committee that decided which musicians and songs made the cut?)

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