Paul Clarke in UK - in the middle of the 1970's
from 1970s Teenager: From Bell-Bottoms to Disco Dancing, page 12:
Looking back at the sixties, when I was growing up, I do remember that most television programmes had people speaking with very clear, what we would now call ‘posh’, accents and the background music was likely to be a string quartet or chamber orchestra. Some time during the seventies that all began to change and you would hear guitar music and modern stuff. It was as though the television producers made a conscious decision sometime around 1975 that they wanted their programmes not to sound so old-fashioned and that a good way of emphasising this was to have popular music instead of … more >>
cite as
Simon Webb, 1970s Teenager: From Bell-Bottoms to Disco Dancing (Stroud, 2013), p. 12. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1412008344000 accessed: 12 October, 2024
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Experience Information
Date/Time | in the middle of the 1970's |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by hgb3 on Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:32:24 +0100