1979 and more Radio One

Today is the forty-second anniversary of the launch of BBC Radio One  on September 30th 1967 and to which two years ago we wrote an entry about including a special two  record set.

In 1979 it was decided to issue a second set as of necessity only a handful of hits per year at most could of been programmed in its four sides and this is it.

As with the original Ten Years of Radio One set the cover links the stations Dj's which were classroom currency at the time to the music which several decades on takes us back to those days with pictures too.

I was by this point fifteen going on ten so I was listening to more of the specialist shows in the evenings and weekends and getting a bit more up to speed with current affairs and would borrow colourful pop music magazines and buy even the likes of Sounds and the New Musical Express following the New Wave and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

In the main it was a retrospective selection with more from 1969 onwards as that first set did devote a lot of space to the first couple of years music so we have a mixture of rock from the likes of the Rolling Stones and Jethro Tull, more early 1970's singer song writers, funk with soul, the ever popular euro pop of Abba and 1979's break out act Dire Straits with Sultan Of Swing which I really liked.