Weeks ago the directors approved the performance of a recording of Don Giovanni. But when the time came, Pretty Margret put in an protest: "That's an opera about love, and everything that has to do with love is not permitted the prisoners." As a substitute the prison administration sent us Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Albert Speer, Spandau diary, Aug 18 1960.
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So was there a Spandau Ballet?
Posted by: Rob "Curious" Read | Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 04:46 PM