Obviously, I'm gagging to hear it, it's my specialist subject and I'm a big fan of Mr Maconie, but my computer's playing silly buggers and I can't access iPlayer.
Here's the puff though, which was presumably written by Stuart...
"British pop has had a long and colourful history of powerful and visionary movers and shakers who just happened to be gay..."
Erm, saying they "just happened to be gay", as well as being a laughable cliche, implies that you think their sexuality was of no significance.
If so why write a documentary about them, then?
"Openly gay pop music only arrived in the UK in the early '80s with the likes of The Pet Shop Boys and Bronski Beat..."
BZZT! Neither Chris Lowe or Neil Tennant were out in the 80s.
Also, it's a, it's a, it's a cardinal sin to call Pet Shop Boys "the Pet Shop Boys."
I could go on, but I'll probably start boring myself, but this doesn't bode well.
I know, picky picky...
PS And if you're interested in the subject of Pop music and The Gays in the 80s why not go to this talk in that London next month, Poofters, Pop & Pandemics? Sounds unmissable!
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