The French were in Vietnam. Dwight D Eisenhower was in the White House. And the first seven inch single was released in the UK. The first chart rundown was published in the NME in November that year too. 1952 was the ground zero for pop music as we know it. Some 60 years ago. The best part of a lifetime.
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