"After a musical on the stage has been running a little while it can be quite painful watching. The singers get out of tune, the timpanist can come in halfway through the second act and fall over the gong."
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"The Sound of £££'s for Mr Johnson", Evening Standard (19 March 1965), p. 8
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Laurie Johnson
Laurence Reginald Ward Johnson (7 February 1927 – 16 January 2024) was an English composer and bandleader.
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