These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to
and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering
the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have
sound tracked our changing times, and - just sometimes - changed
the way we feel. Beginning with Vera Lynn's 'We'll Meet Again', a
song that reassured a nation parted from their loved ones by the
turmoil of war, and culminating with the manic energy of 'Bonkers',
Dizzee Rascal's anthem for the push and rush of the 21st century
inner city, The People's Songs takes a tour of our island's pop
music, and asks what it means to us. This is not a rock critique
about the 50 greatest tracks ever recorded. Rather, it is a
celebration of songs that tell us something about a changing
Britain during the dramatic and kaleidoscopic period from the
Second World War to the present day. Here are songs about work,
war, class, leisure, race, family, drugs, sex, patriotism and more,
recorded in times of prosperity or poverty. This is the music that
inspired haircuts and dance crazes, but also protest and social
change. The companion to Stuart Maconie's landmark Radio 2 series,
The People's Songs shows us the power of 'cheap' pop music, one of
Britain's greatest exports. These are the songs we worked to and
partied to, and grown up and grown old to - from 'A Whiter Shade of
Pale' to 'Rehab', 'She Loves You' to 'Star Man', 'Dedicated
Follower of Fashion' to 'Radio Ga Ga'.
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