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Personal Narrative: Pre-Glee Music
Grew up in the 70s, so never got the Beatles phenomenon, the invasion, the crazy teenagers, and all that. Still don’t. Strangely though I know most of their tunes and some lyrics, the beginning part anyway. Since I was living through all these events- Vietnam war, riots, protests, etc – in unintended development oblivion (I was too young), I could only take the film at face value, i.e., lack of emotional association. Having said that, for me, this is just a longer version of a pre-Glee musical.

A group of college aged kids live in New York. Jude (Jim Sturgess) from Liverpool goes to America looking for his father, Wes Huber(Robert Clohessy) in Princeton. He thinks he is a scholar, but he is only a maintenance staff. Jude meets Max Carrigan,

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