• Over the last decade or so, the sky-scraping rise of portable devices, all connected to the internet and equipped with near-unlimited data, has triggered a seismic shift in the music industry. Streaming companies have deific influence on artists’ success or failure.

  • For centuries, music has been a driver of change and powerful influence on people’s political views. Music and politics have held long-standing impacts on each other, both through direct engagement and more covert strategising.

  • Clueless’ three main female characters – Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone), Dionne Davenport (Stacey Dash) and Tai Frasier (Brittany Murphy) – have more depth, substance and intelligence than the vast majority of women seen in teen films, comedies and cinema in general.

  • The Sixties was “the defining decade” for not only The Beatles’ native United Kingdom, but the Western World as a whole. Raising the first teenage generation free from conscription, society was about to undergo a dramatic change in cultural zeitgeist.