An article written for the Entertainment Scene website in January 2008 reflecting on the 1960s BBC programme Juke Box Jury.
For the whole of January 2008, BBC4 here in the UK is running a season about the evolution of Pop Music, looking at the changes over the last fifty years. This features documentaries, old TV shows, films and concerts, and has included a couple of classic sixties’ episodes of “Top of the Pops” and “Jukebox Jury”. The latter of these was the more fascinating, and at the same time a little bit scary.
The edition they showed, in its entirety, was from November 1960, so obviously it was in black and white. I have often, in the way that only ageing grumpies can, regaled my now-adult children with how my memories of childhood are primarily in shades of grey. This programme illustrated it perfectly.
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