The Pop Chronicles are two radio documentary series which together "may constitute the most complete audio history of 1940s-60s popular music." Both were produced by John Gilliland.

Inspired by the Monterey Pop Festival, the Pop Chronicles of the 1950s and 1960s was originally produced at KRLA 1110 and first aired on February 9, 1969.John Gilliland narrated the series along with Sie Holliday and Thom Beck (pictured). Also performing interviews were Dick LaPalm, Lew Irwin, Harry Shearer, Mike Masterson, and Richard Perry. The show's brief recurring theme song “The Chronicles of Pop” was written and performed by Len Chandler. The engineer and associate producer of the series was Chester Coleman.

KRLA 1110 originally broadcast an hour a week of the Pop Chronicles, which were later syndicated and broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. The photo above indicates that it was broadcast on KABC-FM sometime before that station became KLOS.

The University of North Texas Music Library has made the Pop Chronicles available online.

Lolly Pop is the stage personae of U.S. vocalist/songwriter Brooke Aldridge, as directed by British composer John Matthews (aka Ricardo Autobahn) and Minneapolis songwriter/producers Monte Moir (The Time) and Doctor Fink (Prince & The Revolution).

The grand-daughter of Storz Broadcasting program director and Top 40 personality Jim "Grahame Crackers" Richards, Aldridge was born to Dr. Kimberly Richards in Springfield, Massachusetts on May 20, 1975. She was raised between the United States and Zimbabwe, Africa and was a Top of the Pops addict who scoured TM Supermarkets as well as Meikles department stores for hits. Her first 7" purchase was Big In Japan by Alphaville.

In 1994, Aldridge left Harare, Zimbabwe for Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, where she received breaks as a backing vocalist for local acts CXR, Chuck Zwicky, Jazz-Noise-Improv group Brown Rainbow and fronted the band Burning Shakespeare. She designed web banners for Adam Ant bassist Chris De Niro, had a stint as a dancer with the Lords of Acid, recorded with members of The Suburbs and appeared in the Prince & NPG "Get Wild" video. Following a studio internship with NPG keyboardist Morris Hayes and IPR founder Jack Robinson, she studied music business as a Twin/Tone Records office intern. Post Twin/Tone, Pop formed TELEPHONE!- an Electro-Clash trio that caught the attention of Monte Moir and Doctor Fink. She spent 2004 working as a demo singer for Fink as well as touring the East Coast to promote the TC Electropunk compilation series TELEPHONE! appeared on.

Pop Will Eat Itself (also known as PWEI or The Poppies) are an English alternative rock band, originally formed in Stourbridge in 1986, with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. Initially known as a Grebo act, their style changed to incorporate sample driven indie and industrial rock. Their highest charting single was 1993's "Get The Girl! Kill The Baddies!". After initially disbanding in 1996, and having a brief reformation in 2005, they issued their first release in over five years in 2010.

An early permutation of the band formed in 1981 under the name From Eden; members included Clint Mansell, Adam Mole, Chris Fradgley, Malcolm Treece and Miles Hunt (Treece and Hunt went on to form The Wonder Stuff). From Eden recruited Graham Crabb to replace Hunt on drums before splitting up. Crabb, Mole and Mansell recruited Richard March and changed their name to Wild and Wandering, (named after a Wasted Youth album) and they eventually became Pop Will Eat Itself in 1986. They took their name from a quotation in an NME article on Jamie Wednesday by David Quantick.