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“And when life turned against these dreams, the performers’ struggles to keep them alive brought magic into ours. And I don’t mean just by the simple enjoyment of watching the suffering of others. No. The harder their lives became, the harder they dreamed their dreams. And to me, that made the Cricklewood Greats… heroes." 

– The Cricklewood Greats (dir. Peter Capaldi, 2012)