| Description |
Interview with Ray Gosling, probably conducted by Geoffrey Reeves.
Track 1: Test tone, 0.27 mins
Track 2: He talks about the pop scene in the years since 1956, when Bill Haley and Elvis came on the scene; it was a kind of protest, he recalls coming out of the Trocadero after seeing ‘Rock around the Clock’, 2.22 mins
Track 3: He reads part of a review of a record from the Music Echo, which mentions record sales, he says that people are sick of protest, he talks about people plugging protest songs, he talks about protest – there is a conspiracy against the ‘little man’, 4.04 mins
Track 4: The interviewer asks why ‘Mummies and Daddies’ accept rock and roll now – he says that people have got used to the sound, he talks about ‘getting conditioned’ by television, 2.45 mins
Track 5: The interviewer asks why he thinks we are more conditioned now than in 1956, and whether different things are being ‘pushed’ in 1956, whether they are English or American – he says that in 1956 American things were pushed because they had the right kind of techniques (like the recording studio) and promotion, that England did not have, he says this was the greatest revolution inside England for many generations, people felt free, like they could order their own lives; now people feel there is no point in protesting, 2.49 mins
Track 6: He talks about hearing a news story about 6 people protesting against the draft regulations for the Vietnam War in America, he says that six years ago, 600 people protested in East Anglia and it was not covered in the news, 2.11 mins
Track 7: The interviewer suggests that protest implicit in Bill Haley has become explicit now; he says that now protest among the young is accepted in a way it wasn’t ten years ago, and talks about protest songs, particularly Donovan’s ‘Universal Soldier’, 2.48 mins
Track 8: The interviewer asks him to talk about the rise of the Beatles and the way they have changed – he says that the Beatles were the first thing from England that was real, he talks about the film ‘Help’ and says he wishes they had gone to Birkenhead instead of Barbados, 2.56 mins
Track 9: He says he feels that the Beatles and Bob Dylan could have done more with their money; they could have made something like W.H. Auden and John Grierson’s film ‘Night Train’, 1.36 mins
Track 10: He says that Bob Dylan and the Beatles have done nothing with their money and kudos, he talks about artists wanting to get over to the largest possible audience, 3.29 mins
Track 11: The interviewer asks him to talk about Elvis Presley, he appeals to a larger public, he says Presley puzzles him, but he will always sell, they talk about Cliff Richard and his audience, he talks about skiffle and folk, 3.50 mins
Total: 29.19 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0969680 |