Where would classic rock music be without the 1950s? That was the decade when the genre was forming, when it was just beginning to understand the power of what it could do and what it could be.

You know that feeling you had on the first day of school? Things were fresh, and there was an excitement in the air. An innocence, too. Like, where will this brand-new day take me? Well, in some ways, ...

The evening launched a book – An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre 1900-1950 – co-written by Sarah Whitfield, a (white) British academic, and Sean Mayes, a (black) New York-based ...