{"id":627,"date":"2024-07-31T20:10:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T20:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:33:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:33:17","slug":"tony-christie-ft-peter-kay-is-this-the-way-to-amarillo-popular-freakytrigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/tony-christie-ft-peter-kay-is-this-the-way-to-amarillo-popular-freakytrigger\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTony Christie \u2018ft\u2019 Peter Kay &#8211; Is this the way to Amarillo\u201d &#8211; Popular (FreakyTrigger)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cIn that sense \u201cAmarillo\u201d is pulling on the longest thread in this whole blog series \u2013 the way Britain\u2019s light entertainment establishment, centred on the BBC, is so crucial to pop and to the charts. The infrastructure of British pop was born from it, from the old music hall venues pop stars performed in, through the Light Programme their records were played on, down to details like George Martin\u2019s background as a Goon Show producer. For a long time it felt like \u2018light ent\u2019 was a skin UK pop had shed, transforming itself into something new and young and highly exportable. But when you take \u2018what\u2019s popular\u2019 as your metric, you find that light entertainment is always there, tapping patiently at the window of pop\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/popular-number1s.com\/2024\/07\/31\/tony-christie-ft-peter-kay-is-this-the-way-to-amarillo\/\">https:\/\/popular-number1s.com\/2024\/07\/31\/tony-christie-ft-peter-kay-is-this-the-way-to-amarillo\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn that sense \u201cAmarillo\u201d is pulling on the longest thread in this whole blog series \u2013 the way Britain\u2019s light entertainment establishment, centred on the BBC, is so crucial to pop and to the charts. The infrastructure of British pop was born from it, from the old music hall venues pop stars performed in, through&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}