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Review of the decade: Alexis Petridis on pop

Believe it or not, pop got smarter in the noughtiesThere is a parlour game you can play to gauge how dramatically rock and pop music has changed in the course of a decade. Imagine a music fan from the start of the decade is transported to its end, and plonked in front of the Christmas Top of the Pops: how confused would they be? In the case of the 1960s, their bafflement would be total: imagine the fan from 1960 â€“ with his Brylcreem, his Tommy Steele albums and his suspicion that trad-jaz...

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00:20 on December 7 2009

My decade: personal perspectives from key arts figures

Guardian Music — Kevin Macdonald, film directorPersonally, it's been a fascinating decade. In the late 90s, I was struggling to make TV documentaries but work was drying up. I was a puris... more info

00:20 on December 7 2009

Review of the decade: Alexis Petridis on pop

Guardian Music — Believe it or not, pop got smarter in the noughtiesThere is a parlour game you can play to gauge how dramatically rock and pop music has changed in the course of a decade... more info