Industry: A Tale of Two Thompsons
Geoffrey Himes, Washington Post, The, 4 July 1997
DANNY THOMPSON grew up in the world described in the movie Brassed Off--the northern British villages where men scrub off the soot of the coal mines and go off to brass-band practice.
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