New York's Rock'n'Roll Rhapsody
Philip Norman, Mail On Sunday, 7 July 2008
NEW YORK HAS inspired so much of the greatest popular music ever written. London may have its chirpy Cockney ditties like 'Underneath the Arches', and Paris its perennial hymns to lovers, springtime and the River Seine.
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