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| - (This is possibly my favourite of Peel's Radio Times columns, written at a time when commercial radio was dominating the "middle market" because of the vast gulf that had opened up between Radios 1 & 2 - so boldly scathing, but never sneeringly dismissive of the *people* who listened to the stations, merely wishing they could be given something more stimulating ("don't hate the player, hate the game"). Note that the stations Peel liked most were in the north of England and Scotland, where the formulaic drift of commercial radio was at a much more embryonic stage and where the dominant political and social values were, perhaps, closer to his than those in the south of England were. This is confirmed by editions of Music Week magazine from the same period, which reveal that the few stations
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| - (This is possibly my favourite of Peel's Radio Times columns, written at a time when commercial radio was dominating the "middle market" because of the vast gulf that had opened up between Radios 1 & 2 - so boldly scathing, but never sneeringly dismissive of the *people* who listened to the stations, merely wishing they could be given something more stimulating ("don't hate the player, hate the game"). Note that the stations Peel liked most were in the north of England and Scotland, where the formulaic drift of commercial radio was at a much more embryonic stage and where the dominant political and social values were, perhaps, closer to his than those in the south of England were. This is confirmed by editions of Music Week magazine from the same period, which reveal that the few stations other than Radio 1 playing the nascent Britpop hits were largely those in Scotland, whereas most other commercial stations were sticking to the final chart hits by the likes of Level 42, Swing Out Sister, Robert Palmer and Dave Stewart. It is arguably the case that Scottish stations would not have felt the same desire to prolong the 1980s because, compared to stations in the south of England, many fewer of their listeners would have supported the politics with which those acts became associated. It should also be noted that some of the bands mentioned at the start of the piece would eventually make records that were hideously overplayed on commercial radio, a benefit of Radio 1 not being privatised which the commercial stations were typically unwilling to acknowledge. Robin Carmody)
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