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Sir, — I have just listened to the Prime Minister’s expressed disdain for pop music which he says has “no cultural importance whatever” and “doesn’t qualify as music”. Does he realise that the world’s leading orchestra play “pop music? He should clarify what he means by pop music: if he cherishes the N.Z.S.O. or the Boston Pops Orchestra then he had better realise that a predominance of their music has “pop” quality. On the other hand, if he is merely ridiculing the noisier pop groups, then fair enough; they< simply parody his own tyne of noise. — Yours, etc., ANDY THOMPSON. April 21, 1980.
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