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All the world’s a stage

The concert experience is a powerful and joyful union of artist and audience, says Tom Service , and the sooner it returns to our towns and cities, the better

There’s no such thing as a live recording. All recordings are, strictly speaking, inanimate: they are bits of information – inert,

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