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Article Title:	A Man Dies: The '60s Christian rock opera that predated Jesus Christ Superstar
Author of reported comment:	Christopher John Bri
Comment Date:	16:55 on Jul 10 2014
Comment:	Exhall Grange School was a direct grant government establishment for the education of boys and girls with a range of disabilities, principally eyesight-related. We had a thriving drama group and a school rock band and we went in for experimental multimedia performance including recognized theatre of the absurd and original sketches and longer pieces we devised ourselves under the direction of a teacher who was a leading light in the Coventry amateur dramatics scene. I arrived with my guitar in 1963 and soon brought together a band of players and singers, most of whom learned what they knew from listening to records and picking my brains. One day, I think it was in 1966, our staid music teacher who had little to do with my group handed me an LP and a set of sheet music mostly in e-flat and asked me what we could make of it. Our production of A Man Dies resulted and we performed it in school and at local churches to some acclaim. The piece made a profound impression on our young minds and we felt that this was the right way to present the New Testament story to the youth of the day. Now I have a young teenage guitar pupil looking for material to perform with her school friends and I wonder whether the time is right for a revival of A Man Dies.

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