From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #313 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, January 12 2008 Volume 12 : Number 313 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] UK TV - POP BRITANNIA - Episode 2: 22:00, Friday 11 Jan, 2008 - BBC4 ["Colette Robertson" Subject: [AVALON] UK TV - POP BRITANNIA - Episode 2: 22:00, Friday 11 Jan, 2008 - BBC4 POP BRITANNIA - Episode 2: 22:00, Friday 11 Jan, 2008 - BBC4 A Well Respected Man Together with their artists, the likes of Brian Epstein, Andrew Loog Oldham, Chris Stamp et al, would prise British pop out of the grasp of old school showbiz interests and turn it into the spearhead of a youthful revolution into style. Yet they also prepared the way for a new, more corporate rock business that allowed big money and corporate lawyers to move in. Glam stole back the impetus for the kids, putting colour, youth and sexuality back into pop after the rock revolution of the late 60s. Glam struggled between two tendencies - one lead by the art-school brigade of Bowie and Ferry who used glam as provocation, the other fuelled the charts as professional songwriters and producers like Chinn and Chapman who sold million of records with the likes of Mud, The Sweet etc. It would take punk to lay the groundswell for a new generation of young pop dreamers. Produced by Ben Whalley Cheers, Colette ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #313 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest