Tag: Tony Blackburn
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Lockdown Playlists: #1: A Doris Troy Special
As we enter the fifth week of confinement in the Great Coronavirus Lockdown of 2020, social pressures come to bear. Neighbourhood net curtains twitch suspiciously should anyone leave their house. Such is the fear instilled by those Moral Guardians lurking in Facebook Resident’s Pages, if you do leave the house you feel obligated to either…
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Pop Charts Britannia: 60 Years Of The Top Ten – A Preview
The good people of the BBC have posted a clip on their website of Friday’s Pop Charts Britannia documentary which marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Charts. In the clip, you can see me make an idiot of myself trying to tape the charts from 1983 on an unfeasibly large boom-box. There’s a bit more…
Every record tells a story 