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The maestro who smashed up lightbulbs

The maestro who smashed up lightbulbs

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

He  was a master manipulator of media. One night in Liverpool, he invited leading journalists to a champagne reception at the Adelphi, where he proceeded to unscrew light-bulbs and drop them one by one into the hotel lobby from the top floor. The headlines all but wrote themselves….

Read on here.

En francais ici.
 

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