who has just published a book on the show's history, hints that its future wasn't always guaranteed. "There's always been a slight tension between the BBC's desire to serve popular music and the ...

Kerr jokes that his band kept having songs that would get to about number 35. "But then the alchemy came right," he says. And the rest, as they say, is pop history. Rip It Up is on at the National ...

Learn about some of the key artists who shaped British pop music. Identify some key UK musical styles and genres. Learn about key events which affected the development of pop music. Dujon ...