So John Harris believes that there were once some halcyon days when “pop music was a great leveller” (Opinion, 16 November). In 1966, aged 15, when I was earning £6& 10s& 6d a week in my first job, a 45 rpm single cost about 6s 8d, and an LP £1& 12s& 6d. To buy the Beatles LP Revolver therefore cost me more or less a quarter of my wages.
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