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...Today I listen mostly to old stuff. But I do listen to what shows up - really out of curiosity more than anything else. It's not often that something that really gets to me. I don't know what's out there so I just buy - Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Kaisar Chiefs. Radiohead has a new album out that I guess I'll buy. I don't think one can honestly speak about favorites unless one is prepared to see them live. I think that's the mark of serious affection. And I never go and see anybody live, apart...
...branch of pop music. Like everyone else in the population. I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them. Pink Floyd [featured prominently in Rock 'n' Roll] I actually ignored completely - my children used to listen to Pink Floyd, but I never did. I thought they were a pretentious rock band. I never took any notice of Pink Floyd until much later...
...dangerous than a rival show and way deadlier than any serial killer dreamed up in a script meeting: the digital revolution that's wreaking global havoc in industries as diverse as broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, film and music. Challenged by technologies that allow anyone to read news, watch TV or listen to music on a bedroom computer (or to make these things oneself for consumption by other people on the same computer), these businesses are frantically scrambling to reinvent themselves. EastEnders must now fight for an audience not just with other terrestrial channels but with cable and satellite stations, while younger...
...Stones when they came along, but he admits to being a late bloomer when it came to Pink Floyd. "I ignored them completely at first," he says. "When Dark Side of the Moon came out, a friend of mine, a photographer, came over with the record and said, 'Please, listen to this. There's a play in this album.' I put it on top of this big wooden filing cabinet, and it stayed there for a year...
...twice-divorced Stoppard, who turned 70 this year, is a grandfather now, but he keeps up with groups like Arcade Fire and the Arctic Monkeys. "I listen to what shows up, really out of curiosity more than anything else," he says. "It's not often that something really gets to me." He goes to concerts only rarely--for the Stones when they tour and an occasional experiment like Oasis (a "brilliant songwriting band"). "I'm a very boring person," he insists. He doesn't go to movies, he says (though he writes plenty of them; see box), and spends most...