50? Moi? How The Muppets rocked the world with anarchy, nonsense and the inimitable Miss Piggy

<p>Half a century on, Jim Henson’s fuzzy felt friends are as influential as Monty Python and the Beatles. It’s been a wild journey of nightclubbing, light operas, duetting with Debbie Harry and tying John Cleese to a chair</p><p>Fifty years ago today, it was time to play the music