| Description | Tracks 1-3: Clive Barker talks about reading a book about classical music by Finkelstein about developments in music from Beethoven through Brahms and Stravinsky, and the way these ideas relate to popular music, he talks about his view of the relationship between pop music and the social situation, social changes and the loss of taboos, his belief that the more a situation is talked about, the more enervated is the response - this is true of television and of the mass media, he talks about 'sexual voyeurism' in modern society
Track 4: He talks about protest songs and his childhood
Track 5: He talks about 'emotional starvation' in modern society - people are looking to satisfy an emotional need, the importance of certain pieces of pop music to him, such as 'My Foolish Heart' and 'Unchained Melody', 2.55 mins
Track 6: He says that the charts follow the pattern of real life, and the films and music of his youth in the mid-1950s, 2.19 mins
Total: 16.01 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0732080 |