The 45 @ 65

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Sixty-five years ago RCA Victor launched a small, round, plastic green disc on to the listening public. Journalist David Quantick charts people’s love affair with the 45 rpm single and examines one of the most important revolutions in the modern music business.

The single was always aimed at the younger generation, while the LP originally catered for a middle-aged, middle-class, well-heeled audience. The cheaper 45 took on the poorer, cooler youth market and spun with it. The vinyl single launched rock and roll, pop and the teenager on the world and provided a lynchpin for Western popular culture. It has defined the popular music of last 60 years and shows no signs of dying.

In the first programme, David looks at the war of the speeds and the early, glory days of the vinyl single, which pitted stars like Judy Garland up against Frank Sinatra and then brought audiences Elvis and Bill Haley. All this, set against a brave new world of cheap ‘portable’ record players, exotic new vinyl jukeboxes and the birth of the singles charts.

David also examines the early days of the charts, the effect the single had on that new phenomenon, the teenager, the power the TV Music shows had on the single and the cultural power of the 45, from the revolution of rock and roll to teeny and weeny boppers and glam rock’s children of the revolution.

The series features contributions from Tom Jones, actor Martin Freeman, Myleene Klass, songwriter Diane Warren, musician Soweto Kinch, Bob Stanley from Saint Etienne, Michael Bradley from The Undertones, the Reverend Run, DJ Cosmo, Pete Shelley from The Buzzcocks, Pete Waterman, as well as DJs including Mike Read, David Jensen, Johnnie Walker, Bob Harris, and Bill Brewster Neil Fox amongst others.

Presenter/ David Quantick, Producer/ Anna Harrison and Frank Stirling for Unique Broadcasting

Episode 1

Episode 2

Degree Show 2013

Here is the Official Lincoln School of Media Degree Show Trailer for 2013


    The show is on between 5th and 7th June at the University of Lincoln , Brayford Campus, Lincoln LN6 7TS.

    All are welcome to attend throughout the day – there will be screenings of films, exhibitions of Design and Photography work, Radio, Script, Audio Production and Television Studio work.

    The official website
    is at http://www.lsmshow.co.uk/
    Find out more on Twitter @lincolnmedia

    or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LincolnSchoolMedia

    there is a programme – at: http://issuu.com/lsmshow/docs/programme

    Created by third year Media Production students:Tom Young,Jerome Smith, Amy Drew. Isaac Beatson. Cameron Steele; Ross Mcgowan, Sean Strange
    with many thanks to all those who helped out, including Media Loans, staff at University of Lincoln, the student interviewees Brian Alcorn, Tom Ward, Jack Darnell, Cameron Steele, Jim Booth, Ruby Finnegan, Florian Rupert, Amy Nolan, Nathan Dean (voiceover), Bex Clayforth, Jack Howard, Adam Bibilo and Head of Dept Dr Sarah Barrow

Guest Lecture – Susi O’Neill

How do you get your music to an audience? It’s a tricky question and one that students on the Level 2 module Music Production & Enterprise must attempt to answer.

Susi O’Neill is a musician and digital marketing consultant and came to the university today to give a lecture and to help the students devise their promotional strategies for the artists they are working with for this module.

Susi’s very informative lecture covered trends in digital marketing, her own research into independent music distribution and also new business models for music marketing and promotion. She included some very useful advice and a lot of food for thought regarding the state of the recorded music industries.

As a practising musician herself, Susi’s talk tackled exactly the issues and challenges facing the musicians, producers and songwriters in today’s digital environment. I wish she could come back every month!