Letters: Music in schools and Pompey Pop

Martin Pickard attributes the decline of working-class pop musicians to the "abandonment of music in state schools" (Letters, 1 February). In recent years I have been conducting an extensive research project about popular music in Portsmouth in the 25 years following the second world war (Pompey Pop). In 1963 John Boorman directed a TV documentary about a secondary modern school teenager from the city and, writing about this in his autobiography, suggested that "the surge of pop music in the 60s...

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