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1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
I don't think that was really anything to do with the facilities at the Paris Studios. Until the coming of commercial radio, most rock and pop music in the UK, whatever the source was broadcast in mono (on Medium wave) until 1987/8 when the BBC's pop channel (Radio One) started to get FM frequencies allocated as the Police were moved from the low end of VHF Band II. However some rock and pop shows (such as John Peels) were also given air time for a few hours each week on the middle of the road channel, Radio Two, which along with Radios Three and Four had been given FM transmitters as far back as the late 1950's / early 1960's. Lots of stuff was certainly recorded in stereo at the Paris studios (actually, as an old theatre the studios were used mostly, not for concerts but for radio comedy such as The Hitchhiker's Guide).As late as 1970 the BBC Paris Theatre concerts were mono. The voices in my head are saying that John Peel even explicitly mentions medium wave during one or more introductions (i.e., what we in the US refer to as "AM", which at the time was strictly low-fi mono).
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