So, pop music got about six hours a week, and pop music records got still fewer (Musicians’ Union rules strictly limited “needle time” on broadcast radio). The staid, stuffy British Broadcasting Corporation offered listeners what they high-handedly judged was “good for them” (rather than what they may have “wanted.”) A slate of news, educational programs, children’s shows, classical music, and “light entertainment.” Pop music was considered the latter, and had to share the category with comedy programs, quiz shows, and variety shows. If you were listening to BBC Radio in, say, 1964, you’d never know there was a musical revolution underway. This is the final entry in the Spotify Chronicles…and it’s a long one - it even has an “epilogue” - but I think it’s interesting enough to justify it’s length. COVID-19 “shelter-in-place” quarantine, March 18 through…?, 2020
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