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Fact #19179

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Short story:

The new No1 album in the UK is the soundtrack to the film West Side Story, composed by Leonard Bernstein.

Full article:

Andrew Loog-Oldham (manager, Rolling Stones) : You have to remember how drab the UK was post-World War II. We had rationing; the money had gone to rebuild Germany. But, of course, we would get the music. West Side Story was unreal, a pre-Tommy Tommy, if you will, because at that time our gangs, our Teddy Boys, had not yet found the voice that Quadrophenia would later give our unsettled youth.

John Osborne's play Look Back In Anger may have been about the people, but it was not for the people