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4 October 2015

Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times

52 Years Ago Is the pope a pop star? Time and the Billboard charts will tell. A papal prog-rock album, “Wake Up!,” will drop on Nov. 27. That’s Black Friday, as it happens, but you can’t stuff it into the Christmas stocking because it’s digital only, at least for now.
The Vatican has already released one of the 11 tracks on the album, “Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!” It’s made up of excerpts from a papal speech, set to electric guitars and drums, with some guest vocalists singing. The song is not, it should be noted, an earworm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/arts/weekend-entertainments-from-the-archives-of-the-new-york-times.html?emc=edit_tnt_20151001&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y&_r=0