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Alternative rock and BBC Radio 1

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Difference between Alternative rock and BBC Radio 1

Alternative rock vs. BBC Radio 1

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

Similarities between Alternative rock and BBC Radio 1

Alternative rock and BBC Radio 1 have 14 things in common (in Unionpedia): Annie Nightingale, Blur (band), Britpop, Coldplay, Fall Out Boy, FM broadcasting, House music, Indie rock, John Peel, Manchester, Oasis (band), Pop music, Pulp (band), Rock music.

Annie Nightingale

Anne Avril Nightingale, MBE (born 1 April 1940) is an English radio and television broadcaster.

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Blur (band)

Blur are an English rock band, formed in London in 1988.

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Britpop

Britpop is a UK based music and culture movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised "Britishness", and produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US-led grunge music, an alternative rock genre, and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene.

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Coldplay

Coldplay are a British rock band formed in 1996 by lead singer and pianist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London (UCL).

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Fall Out Boy

Fall Out Boy is an American rock band formed in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, in 2001.

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FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM) technology.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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John Peel

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Oasis (band)

Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Pulp (band)

Pulp were an English rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Alternative rock and BBC Radio 1 Comparison

Alternative rock has 310 relations, while BBC Radio 1 has 297. As they have in common 14, the Jaccard index is 2.31% = 14 / (310 + 297).

References

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