Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.
Paul MorleyPop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
Paul MorleyPop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.
Paul MorleyThe corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.
Paul Morley