Mark Senior October 9, 2023 The Tony Blair Rock Opera features bagpipes, Lady Macbeth and a wrestling match with Gordon Brown Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London Written by comedian Harry Hill, it’s a hectic hour-and-a-half of high-energy songs and skits.
Sheri Lynn Behr/Alamy January 24, 2022 Meat Loaf – a complicated musical giant Duncan Wheeler, University of Leeds Hits like Bat of Hell and I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t do That) characterise a career of risk-taking and genre-bending that also saw some spectacular lows.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. kojoku/Shutterstock April 14, 2020 As Andrew Lloyd Webber launches a YouTube channel, here’s how he revived the musical Matt Lockitt, University of Winchester By combining the tradition facets with modern music Lloyd Webber reinvigorated the form.