Bill Norman - "This is pop" Fridays 9pm
I've done home tapes for mates for about 40 years ( amazingly they’re still friends ) but not consistently for a long time as I am nearly deaf so I need to be careful how I use my remaining hearing . This does of course also explain my very strange musical tastes.
Although This Is Pop represents a good chunk of what I consider to be my favourite music I also love old soul and funk/jazz funk , Americana , 70s prog , classic rock , pop and reggae , a little bit of jazz and a dollop of classical.
I've done home tapes for mates for about 40 years ( amazingly they’re still friends ) but not consistently for a long time as I am nearly deaf so I need to be careful how I use my remaining hearing . This does of course also explain my very strange musical tastes.
Although This Is Pop represents a good chunk of what I consider to be my favourite music I also love old soul and funk/jazz funk , Americana , 70s prog , classic rock , pop and reggae , a little bit of jazz and a dollop of classical.
- Favourite Albums – three that are inseparable - Court and Spark – Joni Mitchell, Innervisions – Stevie and Revolver - The Fabs
- First single bought – two together – the theme from Fireball XL5 by Russell Crowe’s former father in law and 54321 by Manfred Mann
- Favourite gig - Mr Springsteen – May 11th 1981 Newcastle City Hall
- Favourite Rug Cutter – Feel the Need In Me – Graham Central Station
- Favourite Singles again – three that cannot be distinguished - When You Walk In The Room - The Searchers, Inherit the Wind - Wilton Felder and Overnight Sensation - The Raspberries closely followed by King Tubby Meets the Rockers Up town - Augustus Pablo , Going Underground - The Jam , Complete Control - the Clash , Regret – New Order , Common People – Pulp and the Poacher – Ronnie Lane
- Favourite Bands – The Beatles, The Jayhawks, Steely Dan, Crowded House , The Jam , The Manfreds in all guises , Yes , and er … Premiata Forneria Marconi
- Favourite current band - Public Service Broadcasting
- I am 62 and retired after working in the civil service then mental health , learning disabilities services in the statutory sector and finally a blind society in the voluntary sector .
- Outside music I love quizzing , I do voluntary stuff on the committee of a Community Centre and a few other things , I want to save the earth, and I have a lifelong devotion to most things Trek , Who and MCU . I love running on my cross trainer to old episodes of Person of Interest or Luke Cage….
