{"id":19775,"date":"2026-05-28T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/in-defence-of-the-songs-of-my-youth-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:06:44","slug":"in-defence-of-the-songs-of-my-youth-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/in-defence-of-the-songs-of-my-youth-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"In defence of the songs of my youth – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Party tunes of 1973 | Tim Winton\u2019s Juice | Remembering times tables | Labour\u2019s priorities | Tony Blair and irony
Zoe Williams says \u201cno good songs were released anywhere in the world\u201d in 1973 (I\u2019m trying to pick the best party tunes since 1966. Why are all the real bangers from 1989?, 26 May<\/a>). Anyone born, like me, in 1957 will confirm that a high proportion of the best ever songs were recorded in 1973 \u2013 Radar Love, Candle in the Wind and No Quarter, to name but three. That\u2019s because the music you love at\u00a016 is the music you will love for ever. Williams was, of course, 16\u00a0in 1989, a year that seems to\u00a0us 1957\u2011ers bereft of worthwhile music.
Nick Smith<\/strong>
Fyfield, Essex<\/em>
<\/span> Considering current European temperatures and the \u201cheated\u201d debate about the Guardian\u2019s best 100 novels list (Letters, 22 May<\/a>), Tim Winton\u2019s Juice could be a contender. Its description of folk living underground to escape the heat, water harvesting, difficult food production and societal change is sobering.
Margaret Ward <\/strong>
Crossford, South Lanarkshire<\/em>
<\/span> At school in the 1950s, it never occurred to us to calculate multiplication tables (Letters, 25 May<\/a>). They were simply dinned into us by overbearing teachers. Looking back, that appears as a kind of abuse, but it was useful too, because at 73 I still know them.
David Robson<\/strong>
London<\/em>
<\/span> If Tony Blair\u2019s scornful essay is \u2013 justifiably \u2013 castigated because \u201che doesn\u2019t mention inequality once\u201d, as Andy Burnham pointed out (Report, 27 May<\/a>), what is the verdict on the Labour manifesto of 2024, whose 136 pages mention inequality only once?
Paul McGilchrist<\/strong>
Cromer, Norfolk<\/em>
<\/span> Tony Blair<\/a> says that the Labour party has an \u201calmost infinite capacity for self-delusion\u201d. Has\u00a0he\u00a0looked in a mirror?
Karey Hunter<\/strong>
Leicester <\/em>
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Party tunes of 1973 | Tim Winton\u2019s Juice | Remembering times tables | Labour\u2019s priorities | Tony Blair and ironyZoe Williams says \u201cno good songs were released anywhere in the world\u201d in 1973 (I\u2019m trying to pick the best party tunes since 1966. Why are all the real bangers from 1989?, 26 May). Anyone born, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}