People's Songs
An original book to accompany Stuart Maconie's landmark Radio 2 series: a history of post-war Britain through pop music.These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured…
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An original book to accompany Stuart Maconie's landmark Radio 2 series: a history of post-war Britain through pop music.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.The story of modern Britain is told chronologically over 50 chapters, through the records that we listened to and loved during the