Booker T. These comments, though part of a self-promoting strategy, also shed some light on reception of the poem in the second century BCE. It begins as a reading and listening experience. By the millennium, there was a new and lasting schism within northern soul, the latest division in a series of civil wars: those who wanted to look back to the grand days of the past and saw northern as a revivalist and reunion scene; and those clubs that kept the torch burning and insisted on new discoveries and an upfront music policy. He fought back and chose John Williams to create a score, aiming for a more timeless feel, and he sure was right.
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