If I had to choose a cultural artefact that most underpinned my 1980s childhood, it would be the Andrew Lloyd Webber mega-musical Starlight Express...dreams and nightmares of the decadent decade that gave birth to it.
A truly immersive experience, it involved actors on roller-skates racing through and around the audience...casting, at one point hiring more Black actors than the rest of the West End combined.
James Baldwin was often backstage to visit his friend Lon Satton...Jeffrey Daniel, invented the moonwalk that Michael Jackson made famous.
Now, the show has returned to London for the first time in more than 20 years...experience set me off on a strange rollercoaster ride through space and time, as I re-boarded the midnight train.
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