> Back in 1959, on the cusp of the Swinging Sixties, I was posted to Germany as part of my National Service and quickly found myself a new niche. In those days, the Forces radio station played an endless diet of Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee — both wonderful singers, but their music was the sort of thing we young servicemen associated with our parents.
> We wanted something different, something to call our own — and we'd found it in rock 'n' roll.
> Powerful and energetic, these new songs had exploded on to the music scene to become the anthems for our changing times.... This was the dawn of two decades which would usher in some of the greatest music ever made and the greatest lyrics ever penned — written and performed by bands and solo artists whose names are now etched in the music hall of fame.
> From Elvis and the Beatles to the Rolling Stones and The Who, Bob Dylan and the Kinks, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Queen — the music that emerged from that era has more than stood the test of time and is loved by baby boomers and their grandchildren alike.
> Yet not, it seems, by the bigwigs at Radio 2.
> As the Mail reported yesterday, it appears that they have quietly asked their DJs to 'scale back' on playing songs from the Sixties and Seventies in favour of music from the Eighties onwards.
> I'm sure I can't be the only one who is baffled. Yes, the Eighties and Nineties produced some terrific music, but it seems sheer folly to deprive the Radio 2 audience of some of the hits from the decades before — whatever their age.
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