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    Music

    May 01, 2023 3 minutes

    CORONATION

    The king of rock’n’roll

    n June 2, 1953, the day of Elizabeth II’s coronation as queen of the United Kingdom, buttoned-up Italian-American singer Frankie Laine was number one in the singles chart with polite, easy-listening ballad, and pre-Beatles Britain was still a long way from starting swinging. Fast forward 70 years, and Charles succeeds his mum on the throne at the same time as songs including Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding’s donking trance rave anthemand giant Y-fronts-bedecked Scots soul-boy and social media oversharer Lewis Capaldi’s, and Miley Cyrus’s – an allegorical ode to, nudge-wink, “self-love” – all compete to be crowned top of the pops.

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