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The Leningrad Symphony

The concert by starving musicians in besieged Leningrad, Iranian musicians who battled the Shah, plus Miriam Makeba, Willie Nelson on Farm Aid, and the first Glastonbury Festival.

The concert by starving musicians in besieged Leningrad, Iranian musicians who battled the Shah, plus Miriam Makeba, Willie Nelson on Farm Aid, and the first ever Glastonbury Festival.

(Photo: Official Soviet picture of Dmitri Shostakovich working on his famous Seventh ("Leningrad") Symphony. AFP/Getty Images)

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