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For many of us in the British Commonwealth, Boxing Day can bring back memories of visiting family and friends, even as modernity transforms the date from an opportunity to exchange gifts between one another into one on which you return gifts at shopping malls. For Americans, it’s an anachronism.
The origins of Beatlemania.
Gordon Thompson looks at the end of 60’s British Pop music.
Gordon Thompson looks at a unique revolution.
Colin Larkin discusses how we listen to music now.
Some photos from the OUP Ball 2007.
Play with The Beatles.
John Lennon in the Oxford DNB.
A pop music quiz.
Everyone has an opinion on the best pop music albums of all time. Call us pessimists, but at OUP, we were wondering, what are the worst albums? Luckily, we have the best resource for all things music, Colin Larkin editor of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. He tells us what makes his ears ring.