| Description | Track 1: Albert Hunt talks about teaching music to young people in schools, comparing Ella Fitzgerald's version of 'Lover' with Cliff Richard's version, he says that he thinks we should discuss pop music in the idiom young people are used to, he discusses whether people can move on to other kinds of music, like jazz, through pop music, 1.50 mins
Track 2: He talks about young people using pop music as 'background to their lives' 'wallpaper music', he talks about a girl he knows who has schizophrenia and relies on pop music to keep in touch with 'a common reality', 3.14 mins
Track 3: He says that it is 'pompous' to talk of teenagers as 'they', he does not feel capable of making a definitive statement about what people find in pop music, he talks about Cliff Richard and Frank Sinatra's interpretation of songs, 2.58 mins
Track 4: He talks about the arrival of beat groups and the difference between the manufactured images of Cliff Richard and the Beatles, 2.43 mins
Track 5: Continues Track 4, the interviewer asks about other groups, such as the Rolling Stones and the Animals, he says that the Beatles are better musicians and songwriters, he talks about the rebelliousness of the Rolling Stones' image, 4.02 mins
Track 6: He talks about a trend towards a greater sophistication in music at the time when the Beatles emerged, 1.51 mins
Track 7: He talks about people buying Elvis Presley's 'Crying in the Chapel' and the Beatles records, which shows that there is a greater variety of music in pop now than five years ago, he compares modern singers to Vera Lynn, 2.42 mins
Total: 19.22 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0731480 |