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The debate - has rock and roll died?
In an article written by Dominic Green in the magazine The Critic, his title and opening paragraph says:
'The year the music died.
It was 40 years ago today: the magnificent swansong of rock and roll

Rock and roll will never die,” Sha-Na-Na insisted at Woodstock in 1969. “It won’t fade away.” But it did. Copyright, the golden seam that ran through the rock business, ended with digital file-sharing in the late Nineties. Rock music now survives in two museum formats, the big-ticket bucket-list gig and the anniversary boxset: see them before they die, hear why the offcuts were cut off in the first place.'
The full article can be read here: https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/january-2020/the-year-the-music-died/

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