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Article: Personally speaking Rousing and arousing - the story and the glory of pop
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- January 6, 2008
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Asked by BBC4 to write and present a film that answered the
question 'Pop, what is it good for?', I avoided simply responding
'absolutely nothing', or, indeed, 'absolutely everything', and got
on with talking about some of my favourite pop songs. I could have
instantly chosen hundreds that I have a particular fondness, even a
raging affection, for. There have been some charts over time where I
liked all the songs in the Top 40, some because they were undeniably
glorious and moving, some because they were frivolous and trash,
some simply because they were in the charts at the same time as the
very great and the very silly. That's one thing pop is for - to fill