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Awesome Theatre’s production proves that Hot Topic is a fertile setting for a gothic romance.

We continue our look at the music of 50 years ago… If you had to pick one musical artist to represent the decade of the 1970’s you would be hard-pressed to find a better one than Elton John. With the exception of 1977 (re-hab?) Elton had at least one album and sometimes two in the charts during every year of the decade. It was a remarkable run for he and lyricist Bernie Taupin. And 1971 was a particularly fertile year. Not only did they drop two outstanding studio albums including Madman Across The Water which we will get to later this year…but they also recorded the soundtrack...

The Mail's music critic ADRIAN THRILLS rounds up this year's best... Joni Mitchell has always bristled at the notion that she is a folk singer. Given that her music has encompassed pop, jazz and world beats — as well as the acoustic songs with which she made her name — that's no surprise. But listening to a new box set that charts her formative years, that folk tag is hard to escape, and she knows it.  'I didn't think folk was a good description of what I was,' she says in the liner notes. 'And then I listened, and it was beautiful. I had this realisation . . . I was a folk singer!'