Margaret Thatcher and Her Influence on Music

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Below is an excerpt from But the whole thing is worth reading just for the comments by BBC online readers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3682281.stm

"Daily Telegraph rock critic David Cheal said "working class boys made good", such as Weller, were "archetypal Thatcherite success stories" - whatever political views they may have held.

Many of the anti-Thatcher records were released on independent labels - arguably themselves models of Thatcherite entrepreneurial flair.

Mr Cheal says this is evidence of "double think" going on at the time. "

Discuss!

― Andy jay, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking of starting a punk band that sang nothing but songs about Margaret Thatcher, the neutron bomb, and Jodie Foster.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking of starting a punk band that sang nothing but songs about Margaret Thatcher, the neutron bomb, and Jodie Foster.

I bought that once. I'd buy it again!

― Harry Klam, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"How does it feeeeeeeeeel!!!! How does it feel to be the mother of a 1000 dead!!!!"

Oh lord, where to begin. 80's UK punk to thread.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, without Thatcher we'd never have had Carter USM, and Britain would be immeasurably poorer.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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