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The radio industry appears to have become obsessed with only playing “hits” and yet would you say that this is a lie:

“I would buy a single (or 45!) and rush home to listen to it, then I’d flip it over and play the B side.”

And what about the sentiment expressed here, would you say that this was typical of the record buying public?

“When I came home with Electric Warrior under my arm, I played it all the way through, both sides, sure I had my favourite tracks on the album, but they weren’t always the singles ………I listened to all the tracks.

And yet, the radio stations which set themselves up to “play oldies” either don’t realise this, or maybe they think that they know better …. who knows? The advantage that we have over all of them is that we don’t need to deliver a huge profit to shareholders and we can do what we know is the right thing for US, working on the principle that if we feel this way, others will too, after all, we all went through the same stuff didn’t we?

Plenty of the music we play has been forgotten about, much of it as a direct result of it not being played on the radio. Some of the songs you hear on CCRN have been described as “bubble gum … teenybopper fodder … fad music ….” It makes no difference to us what label you want to attach to it. During an interview just after The Beatles split up, John Lennon said that he couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about because people would still have their Beatles music to listen to, the music wasn’t being taken away. It has always been a cause of frustration for us that music appears to be the only art form to be criticised simply because of how old it is. Books are not regarded as inferior because they were written 40 years ago, a book is either good or not, and that is decided on by the person reading it. Because a film was made in the early 70’s is not a reason to dismiss it out of hand without watching it first …. And yet pop music is derided simply because of it’s age. Complete nonsense isn’t it?

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