What music are you listening to?

[marshlander]

...cant believe that music used to be pretty much banned in the 60's on radio incase it corrupted the youth haha, sounds so funny now but scary that its true - i think it says in the movie that radio 1 only played about an hour of pop music per day - god knows wot people listened to instead, some great songs on the soundtrack that i never heard before - great film that i plan to buy on dvd

The banning of music in case of corruption etc is not quite accurate, although a few songs did suffer that way. The BBC used to have a monopoly on official radio broadcasting. There were no local radio stations, no commercial radio just the Home Service (which morphed eventually into Radio 4), the Light Service (our only nationwide access to popular and light music, which became Radio 2) and the Third Programme (which played classical music exclusively and became Radio 3 after the reorganisation following the 1967 cull of the pirates). Anyone who wanted to listen to pop music had to listen to foreign broadcasts (mostly Radio Luxembourg in the evenings - which faded in and out all the time :mad: ). It was actually the Musician's Union that had a stranglehold on the output of recorded music on the Light Service and limited so-called "needletime" to a few hours a week. This was based on the premise that playing records put live musicians out of work. Consequently there were shows on the Light Service, particularly at the weekend, that featured the great bands of the 60s playing live in the studio - Saturday Club, for instance would have The Beatles, The Stones, The Animals etc. etc. etc. I think there was also Pick of the Pops on Sundays when the new top twenty singles chart was played in full. Everyone listened to it. Of course, everything changed when Caroline began broadcasting. It really was a huge revolution the like of which is almost impossible for youngsters today to grasp..

The songs on the soundtrack are very representative of what was played on Radio London.