| Description | Tracks 1-2: Adrian Mitchell talks about contemporary pop songs – he is looking for something extraordinary and new, he talks about Ken Dodd’s ‘Tears’, which is rubbish, and a Bob Dylan song ‘If you gotta go, go now’, he talks about ‘obsessional’ pop and the power of the pop scene, he talks about problems in the education system
Track 3: He talks about not trusting the pop charts, reading the Melody Maker and getting his political awakening from it, 2.32 mins
Track 4: He says that the Melody Maker was the first paper concerned with the racial situation in his country and in the world, it came out against the colour bar in Midlands pubs, the interviewer asks about corruption in the music industry, 1.33 mins
Track 5: He says that there are a few honest people in the music industry, but it’s hard because there is a pressure to turn out a product, not a work of art, the interviewer talks about the trend in pop away from lyrics towards sound since the mid-1950s, 3.27 mins
Track 6: Adrian Mitchell talks about lyrics and stories in Beatles songs and about Jerry Lee Lewis, 1.43 mins
Track 7: He talks about Screaming Lord Sutch and about commercial radio stations, 3.06
Total: 18.03 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0777980 |