| Description | Track 1: George Melly talks about the slick, glossy nature of pop and discusses an newspaper article analysing the design of a transistor radio - 'one's eye is seduced everywhere and one's ear also', then goes on to talk about fashion
Track 2: He talks about his childhood and poor quality education: the idea that one can derive pleasure from the world from nature and art, ' the will to understand the poetry of life' is crushed in schools; he does not believe suppressing pop would allow great music to flood in, society around the child is not stimulating enough to awaken the child
Track 3: He talks about the beginning of trad jazz after the Second World War and the Liverpool sound, 'a revolt against the image of the boy next door'; the Rolling Stones, another kind of revolt using American black music; he says that pop draws upon protest material; Donovan and the beat lifestyle
Track 4: They discuss Bob Dylan and Donovan - 'he must say something to sell that number of records' and discusses why kids stopped buying Helen Shapiro's records - her career was destroyed when she appeared on television because she didn't look right, and Sandy Shaw
Track 5: He says that he suspects the belief that protests is a necessary stage that teenagers go through and discusses Bob Dylan's songs - he believes that Dylan writes some interesting lyrics.
Total: 16.21 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0780180 |