| Description | Track 1: George Melly discusses protest songs - he feels that they 'substitute the word for the deed' and 'bleed off' the desire to make a genuine protest, and talks about his involvement in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 3.38 mins
Track 2: He talks about the Aldermaston protests, which is 'inconceivable' now and the change in attitudes to nuclear weapons, there seems to be less urgency and things are less dangerous; he says that the Aldermaston protests affected more people than Bob Dylan filling the Albert Hall; he talks about 'things feeling more exciting' for kids after the end of the Second World War, a feeling of life beginning again; the excitement of the traditional jazz world at the beginning of the 1950s, 3.15 mins
Track 3: They discuss the Beatles as sex symbols - he talks about John Lennon, whom 'one can imagine having sex' and who has 'a typical Liverpool face', he talks about his daughter falling in love with the Beatles when she was a very young child, he talks about the difference between blues and jazz singers and 'adolescent music', 2.29 mins
Track 4: He talks about the advance to an undiseased, rational sexual society, the loss of guilt and suppression, which reduces sex and sex in pop music to a pleasurable but mechanical exercise - he gives a speech in John Osborne's 'Inadmissible Evidence' as an example, 2.43 mins
Track 5: He talks about puberty coming earlier due to better diet and therefore sexual feelings come earlier and are more superficial, this explains the asexual, cuddly pop stars, 2.15 mins
Track 6: He talks about the sex appeal of the Rolling Stones and Proby, 1.29 mins
Track 7: Silence, 0.25 mins
Total: 16.16 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0779080 |