| Description | Interview with an unnamed man about skiffle and beat in Liverpool, probably conducted by Geoffrey Reeves and Stuart Hall.
Track 1: Test tone, 0.27 mins
Track 2: They joke about the radio programme 'The Archers'; the interviewer asks whether skiffle led to the rise of the beat groups; he says skiffle did not reach 'the pool' until 1960, he says that the Beatles are Tommy Steele all over again, but the real thing, 2.05 mins
Track 3: The interviewer asks whether the Beatles were popular because they were 'without sex', he says that people 'caught on' to skiffle later than in London, and that skiffle was popular among ordinary kids, he talks about jazz in Liverpool, which is 'in the doldrums' since the Beatles arrived, he talks about the Beatles' sexlessness, 3.09 mins
Track 4: He discusses 'sexlessness' of the Beatles and of other beat groups, and the Rolling Stones, the kind of people who are Beatles or Stones fans, 3.33 mins
Track 5: He talks about record sales; the interviewer asks what will replace the beat sound, 3.11 mins
Track 6: They talk about the rise and decline of the protest song, the people who 'opt out', 3.29 mins
Track 7: He says it would be interesting to see what would have happened if the Tories had got in at the last election, and how this influenced pop and protest, 3.42 mins
Track 8: He talks about protest as an abstract thing, a resistance to 'the conspirators in Denmark St', and how the Beatles helped this, magazines moving up north after the Beatles became successful, 2.58 mins
Track 9: He talks about popular music as an English thing, it's not found in Ireland, 2.33 mins
Track 10: He says that 'it's all over' for the Rolling Stones, they talk about beat groups' success abroad and says it doesn't matter whether the music comes from because it is taken up if it means something to English people, he talks about the importance of the Beatles coming from Liverpool, 3.21 mins
Total: 28.30 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0779980 |