Music, Makes The People, Come Together...
by Charlie Tims
"No matter what happens in the future, rock and roll will save the world," said The Who guitarist Pete Townsend. And he was right. This morning I switched on the radio to hear Pete Doherty, of popular beat combo Babyshambles, name-check both my birthplace and my current home in the same line of his current pop-ditty Albion. It was life-affirming stuff. But as an individual, Mr Doherty quite obviously isn't. So there you have it; pop stars won't save the world ' music might. Tapping into the musical chasm in policy circles Glasgow 2020 have produced what I suspect might be a WORLD FIRST for think tanks ' a music download. If you click here, you can listen to a ten minute sound-scape hewn from a public imagination project on a train travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh. It's probably not going to rock the office party (the first minute is heavy going) but stick with it - it's a grower.