tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post6801785148710292313..comments2024-03-28T09:33:26.444+00:00Comments on No Rock And Roll Fun: What the pop papers say: The last NMESimon Hayes Budgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07084524317888577404noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1930103.post-43533584690950421112015-08-01T14:33:45.261+00:002015-08-01T14:33:45.261+00:00There's always something depressing and reacti...There's always something depressing and reactionary about people saying "anyone?" as that sort of universal pejorative, isn't there? The imaginary chorus of approval that any expression of populism automatically needs, even if (as is often the case) it doesn't actually exist.<br /><br />Seeing how the TV issue coincided with the transmission of The Singing Detective, you can hardly say that Potter was an irrelevant figure to include, even if you were a latterday NME hack. The interesting thing in retrospect about the Cilla cover feature is that it very much looks forward to the deregulation of broadcasting and the overturning of Reithianism *from the perspective of the Left*, a very Liverpudlian thing to do (yes, John McCready wrote it) - this at a time when Douglas Hurd was still insisting that satellite television could be contained within a public service framework, even as Gerald Kaufman and the hardline Thatcherites alike were laughing at him.Robin Carmodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05825645880870474801noreply@blogger.com