Brian Matthew

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From rock and roll’s arrival in the 1950s to the heyday of the beat boom in the 1960s, British pop music fans were poorly served by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Before the advent of the BBC’s pop network, Radio 1, coverage of pop music was all but confined to two weekend morning shows on the Light Programme network: Saturday Club and Sunday’s Easy Beat. Both were presided over by Brian Matthew with the avuncular benevolence of an affable schoolteacher overseeing a lunchtime record hop. Hamstrung by “needle time” agreements that restricted the number of records the BBC could play, ...(100 of 232 words)