As I watched and adored The Damned United and look forward to The Boat That Rocked, might I suggest we are in for a summer of nostalgia for this superb era of music?

Every teenager I play these hits to gasps in delight that music was ever so great.

I hope so. We've been suffering 80's "nostalgia" for far too long!

This looks like a good place to highlight the excellent Bottom To The Top show on Gold last night - June 1971, Tony Christie was the studio guest; an insanely eclectic chart with everything from Mozart to East of Eden via Motown, Northern Soul and even Perry Como!

Oh, and at number 19 - "Sugar Sugar" by Sakkarin which JK will be pleased to hear was played in full (so someone obviously took note of my comments last time)! Who WAS that guitarist, JK?

Tony Cox was the arranger but I can't remember the name of the guitarist but I remember when I told him to play that high he said "but I can't control the notes JK" and I replied "I don't want notes - I want SOUL!".

He then did it perfick!

Pop music ended at Live Aid - the halflife for all music made since keeps getting shorter and shorter (who listens to 90's music anymore?) whereas people keep getting excited and re-excited for everything made before, whether that's Elvis, The Beatles, Abba, Joy Division or the New Romantics...

Well I think Jonathan King is the future of music!

Come to that, I think Jonathan King is the future of everything.

Certainly is for me.

I think there is as much good music around today as ever. We just rarely get to hear it. The major media ignores it and so we have to seek it out. I've heard some very good music from Independent artists. I've bought two CDs recently from different singer/songwriter's websites and they have both included a personal note of thanks - which suggests they don't sell very many CDs.

I gave up listening to the radio, apart from the awesome DLT show (nostalgia) because their focus it too narrow.

A great 80s album - I keep thinking it's Tuesday by Dr and the Medics.

A great 90s album - Spilt Milk by Jellyfish.

The answer is - the best of EVERY decade is great.

A truly wonderful TV or radio show would have George Formby next to Beyonce and Rihanna segued into Noel Coward.

I once played Prince and Little Red Corvette followed by AC/DC Shaking my listeners all night long at 8 in the morning on Capital. The middle aged if lovely lady receptionist said she almost had a heart attack.

Actually JK, I think you've pinpointed what's lacking these days - diversity. In its heyday, the key ingedient in TOTP (and on the radio and at clubs for that matter) was not knowing what might come next - Clive Dunn followed by Hawkwind, then Marvin Gaye and The Carpenters? Or Ultravox, Stray Cats, Aneka and The Specials? These days radio stations, nightclubs and video channels all go for homogenous programming, offering no challenges to fans of that style (whatever it may be), and alienating everyone else... I used to DJ in the 90s, and the segue that used to get everyone smiling on a packed dancefloor was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" into "I Should Be So Lucky", there's just nowhere doing that anymore...