Gramophone magazine: a history – the 1940s

James Jolly
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Reading the correspondence pages from the early 1940s is to be genuinely moved by not only the absolutely essential nature of music in the lives of so many soldiers, sailors and airmen, but how The Gramophone had created its own tight-knit community

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