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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Margaret Sullivan

Every time the music dies, we lose a little bit of our souls

concertgoers in the dark
‘Music has been so central to my inner life.’ Photograph: skynesher/Getty Images

I pulled into Nazareth, I was feeling ‘bout half-past deadline.

Like the narrator in the Band’s classic song, The Weight, I had found myself not in the famous Nazareth of the eastern hemisphere but the one in eastern Pennsylvania, where I was reporting a Washington Post column about a month after Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration.

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