TV review: Secrets of the Pop Song and Stolen

How do you write a radio hit? A riff, a melody and a lot of knob-twiddlingI'm thinking of writing a hit pop song, and calling it Industrial Action, or possibly New Balls Please. That's how you begin – you listen to the news on the radio in the morning, and that gives you your title. It's what songwriter Guy Chambers does anyway, in Secrets of the Pop Song (BBC2, Saturday). The news that day was about sabre-rattling between South and North Korea so he called his song World War Three. His title ...

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