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In July 1989 the Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla flew from Berlin to Bristol, UK, at the invitation of a BBC producer. Tony Staveacre was convinced that Piazzolla would make an excellent subject, and so it turned out. One July night, Piazzolla and his sextet played a memorable set before an invited studio audience. He also sat for an interview and talked frankly with Tony about the troubled birth of the musical form he invented – New Tango. It was to be his last public conversation, and never broadcast. Here is that interview for the first time, stirringly illustrated from the sextet session – more than thirty years since Piazzolla’s death.
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The Glasgow Herald / April 9 1985
Michael Powell’s 60 glorious years
Rhoderick Sharp talks to the British director whose Scottish trilogy has been rediscovered by Americans and who has recently made a film with the Russians. On a fiercely rainy March…
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The Glasgow Herald / April 1 1985
Respectable return behind the wheel for Moss at 55
STIRLING MOSS got back behind the wheel of a competition racing car on Saturday for the first time in 23 years. Moss, now 55, had his racing career and most…
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The Glasgow Herald / June 25 1985
Beer and bikes lure kin of Forty-niners
Take two log cabins and a general store. Strike gold. Add a thousand hardy, hungry, money grubbing and just plain ornery fortune seekers and you have the most famous gold…
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The Glasgow Herald / March 5 1985
New factory costs Irish taxpayers £37 per head
IRISH TAXPAYERS may have paid £20m more than they need have to attract a major American electronics company to Ireland. Sources in Dublin say Ireland’s Industrial Development Authority has promised…