Pop Tunes: Newstalgia

It happens all the time. An ex-school teacher, nice fellow, intellectual and all that, turns around and knocks out a song and it becomes a big hit. The former teacher in this case is an Englishman named Geoff Stevens, 32, who even sang along in the recording, he says, "just for a giggle." Last week Stevens' Winchester Cathedral, released only six weeks ago in the U.S., had sold 1,000,000 recordings, become No. 1 on Billboard's list of bestsellers, and made stars out of the recording "artists," a British group of young men (19 to 26) called the New Vaudeville...

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