Brierly Hill 90210
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Brierly Hill 90210
Previously an occasional podcast of new, good and/or interesting music. But, starting in 2020, a change of format and frequency. Weekly (mostly) new episodes telling the story of a different year through music and "found sounds".
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Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2024
There's not much to laugh at in 2024. It was a year dominated by an escalating conflict in the Middle East, the continuing war in Ukraine and extreme...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2008 v2
As a youngster, on the way to my grandparents, there was a hill completely covered with trees except a small clearing in the middle and down one side....
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2007 v2
The iPhone debuts, Doctor Who blinks & a financial crisis is afoot. The Wombats dance to Joy Division & Tall Pony are your boyfriend now.
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2006 v2
Becoming a first time dad at 40 was exhausting. I felt too old, yet knew I had been too immature to have done it earlier.
Our son was NOT...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2005 v2
The year begins with George W Bush celebrating a second term as US president while the world mourns and prays for those effected by the massive Indian...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2003 v2
It's hard to imagine now but in the late 90s, Apple were on the verge of going out of business. Things changed with the return of Steve Jobs and the i...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2000 v2
BillBoard magazine describes 2000 as a “year that would bring a totally different sound befitting the turn of a new millennium” and John Peel describe...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2023 v2
Personal events will forever shape my memories of 2023. My father passed away in September, just shy of his 84th birthday. While I was pleased I got o...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1975 v2
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1975
I was 8-years old as the year began so was mostly interested in riding my bike, climbing on the backs...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1973
1973 is another of those years that feels like one chapter is ending as another begins. That may have something to do with personal memories. I turned...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1972
My name is Jon Miller. I was born in 1966 in the idyllic countryside of the Cotswold Hills in the south west of England. I have a brother who is two y...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1971
In this episode you going to hear from artists that are the epitome of 1970s music; T Rex, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, what have you. But...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1970
The music of the early 70s does not have the greatest of reputations. You can judge for yourself if that is well-founded or not. But there certainly s...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1969
One of the reasons for looking back to pre-rock'n'roll in this series was to learn more about the styles, trends and back-stories that shaped the musi...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1968
From the start of this series, I've included clips from television shows, mostly from when they first broadcast. Even though I was born in 1966, I hav...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1967
As a child, I had a fascination with the year 1967. Why would that be do you think? Having plunged into the music and sounds of the year to bring you...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1966
Back in 1953, many British homes bought TVs for the first time so that they could watch the coronation of their new Queen. But there are also TV-relat...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1965
As another year gets underway, there's a striking change in tone for stories that have been running for a while. There's a difference in the action ta...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1964
1964 is a year without the single, big-impact story of other years. The assassination of President Kennedy is still a fresh, raw memory as Americans g...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2022 v2
The year started with something I'd avoided to this point; I came down with COVID the first week of the year. I was very poorly for 24-hours but quick...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1963
It's hard writing the introduction for an episode when you know a major news story will dominate it. While the focus will inevitably be on events in D...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1962
As a new year begins, the US continues to ramp up it's presence in Vietnam. But Americans are looking closer to home.
The previous year h...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1961
As a new year begins, tensions are rising between the US, led by newly elected President John F Kennedy, and Cuba, two years after the revolution that...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1960
Something that's struck me throughout this series is the evolving use of language through the decades. It's a fascinating insight into trends and atti...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1959
I noticed a musical trend starting in the previous episode. The earnest beginnings of rock n' roll were joined by novelty songs in 1958. You may recal...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1958
I was born in 1966, 3 years before man first walked on the moon. I have a vague recollection of my dad getting me out of bed to watch some of those Ap...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1957
As I work on this series, I'm still fascinated by the highs, lows and lulls that are outside of my control. The working title of the series was “chron...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1956
Historical! Montgomery, Suez, Hungary, Eurovision and Bert Trautmann. Musical! Little Richard, James Brown, Johnny Cash and Gene Vincent.
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1955
There wasn't a specific date when rock 'n' roll started. As mentioned in earlier episodes, it had been a term used since the 1940s. DJ Alan Freed had...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1954
Alan Freed used the term “rock and roll” as early as 1951. It was a euphemism for sex but Freed used it to describe rhythm and blues, or “race music”,...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1953
If you've followed this series from the beginning, it started with 1977, the year I began high school and a year when music changed with the arrival o...
Brierly Hill 90210 Presents... 1974 v2
I was 7 as 1974 began and, while my musical memories are becoming more well formed, they are still a little fuzzy. Most of them from this episode seem...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2021 (v2)
As the year begins, stories from 2020 are coming to a head. COVID vaccines are being rolled out, cases attempting to show that black lives do matter w...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 1976 v2
1976 is a defining year in British music. The glam rock of the early 70's is making way for disco as it gains mainstream success. There is also a dist...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2020 v3
We'd been living in our “dream house” for 12 years but, it having been built in the 19th century, there was always something failing, breaking or othe...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2019 v2
It's interesting how many major news stories are going on that will be forgotten with what's to come the following year. There's a lot to cram in here...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2018 v2
It was 2016 when the UK voted to leave the European Union. But as 2018 begins, the government has still not worked out how they're going to do it. The...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2017 v2
Although I didn't know it, the curtain came down on my podcast in 2017, in it's original format at least. After 12 years of reinvigorating my love of...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2016 v2
They say age is just a number but it felt more than that to me as I turned 50.
From 1966 with the crowd on the pitch thinking it's all ov...
Brierly Hill 90210 presents... 2015 v2
There's a lot to unpack in this episode. Along with several long-running stories coming to a close, there are many story lines that, although unknown...