by Peter Jennings

"Come Together" is a Christian musical written by Jimmy and Carol Owens and narrated by Pat Boone. It made a tremendous impact in Britain last September, on its first tour outside the United States, with performances in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Liverpool. Bristol and Coventry Cathedral. }tails were packed with Christians from all denominations.
At each performance Jimmy Owens conducted a locally trained choir of young people who were joined by a nucleus group of soloists and musicians. Pat and Jimmy came over to England again in December for two performances in a packed Albert Hall.
Since then interest in "Come Together" has increased tremendously and between Easter and Whit Sunday there will he numerous local productions, In the West Midlands there are over 20 performances, the last one a massive open air production in the Birmingham Bull Ring on Saturday, June I.
"Come Together" was written and recorded in less than three months. The final sections deal with the Second Coming of Jesus and the words are taken from the Apocalypse of St John, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain," the music and singing reaches a great crescendo.
Pat and Jimmy and their families both belong to "Church on the Way" in Los Angeles. "It is such a vital part of our lives that we look forward to every service," Pat told me recently. This interdenominational fellowship has grown from 16 members to over 2,000 in less than four years. "It's an incredible mixture of Jews, Catholics, ex-Mormons, blacks, businessmen, housewives and hippies," said Pat. "Come Together is based on our experience in this fellowship."
The "Come Together" record, cassette, cartridge, music book and handbook are all available from Word (UK) Ltd., Park Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. It will be a new experience for many people but it's well worth it.
"HARD UP HEROES" 19631968, from Decca, is one of the best double-albums for a long time, "This album is affectionately dedicated to those bands who made it, the ones who didn't and those poor unfortunate souls who wasted the most precious years of their youth sleeping rough on clapped out equipment in the hack of broken down Bedford vans, ruined their digestion with motorway grease and were always six months behind with their H.P. payments," so reads the album cover.
David Bowie, Rod Stewart and Cat Stevens and others from the elite of British pop music are contained on this bargain priced double-album which attempts to trace the history and roots of some of today's top names. Joe Cocker, The Small Faces, The Zombies, Zoot Money, Dave Berry, Honeybus, The Birds and The Warriors are included in the twenty-four album tracks. It costs £1.99 and is worth every
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After only three weeks in the charts the Eurovision Sung Contest winning song "WATERLOO" hit No. 1. Twu members of the ABBA group, the initials of the Christian names of the singers who came together in 1972, wrote the song last November.