| Description | Geoffrey Reeves interviews Alan Freeman
Track 1: Test tone, 0.23 mins
Track 2: Alan Freeman talks about his career, making pop records in Australia using his own money, using 'Ted Heath-type bands', making his first record with Petula Clark in 1948, they talk about the characteristics of the pop scene - 'people were going for songs', the arrival of recording tape and other new technology, 2.03 mins
Track 3: He talks about helping Petula Clark to gain confidence as a recording artist, he says today that 'they are going for sounds more than songs' and talks about the Beatles writing good songs - he believes that they revolutionised pop and took British music to America, 3.04 mins
Track 4: He says that the Beatles proved that we could produce songs that sell worldwide; he talks about keeping up with music and trying to like everything he does, he talks about his musical tastes - he likes jazz and 'heavier classical music', they talk about Donovan and folk music - he believes that the kids go for personalities, 2.44 mins
Track 5: Geoffrey Reeves asks him whether Bill Haley and people like him 'got in touch with the kids' - he says it started the record boom but frightened away family audiences - they talk about Ken Dodd bringing families back to pop, he talks about Elvis Presley, 3.29 mins
Track 6: He says that the Beatles 'got the kids first', then the Mums and Dads, he talks about the sexual attraction of the Beatles and the appeal of the Rolling Stones, 3.23 mins
Track 7: He says that songs today cover a great range of subjects than songs in the 1940s, there are songs about life, protest, and the atom bomb, 0.43 mins
Track 8: Silence, 0.52 mins
Total: 16.43 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0777680 |