Popular music isn't just fun – it can change lives | Barbara Ellen

Radio 2's The People's Songs shows how music moulds societyAttention, Tory MPs and reactionaries of every stripe! You thought you hated the Olympic opening ceremony? Then brace yourselves for the arrival of The People's Songs on Radio 2 (yes, that's state-funded radio), in which flop-fringed fop Stuart Maconie will construct a history of modern Britain through 50 popular (though not always pop) songs. So far, so list-culture inoffensive, right?Well, kind of: except the first 10, revealed ahead o...

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