Famous orator Winston Churchill and crapulous Brummie pub rockers The Twang. Which would get your vote?
What do Michael Jackson, Navajo Indians and the sound of planet earth all have in common? They're all new additions to the US National Recording Registry, that's what. Set up in 2002 to preserve "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" recordings, in practice this means the registry houses everything from George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to FDR's fireside chats or The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
25 new recordings are added each year and, naturally, we thought "wouldn't it be extremely cool if the UK had its own list of culturally, historically or aesthetically significant noises?"
America may have Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream, Neil Armstrong on the moon and Nevermind by Nirvana, but us Brits have still got that effin' rotter Bill Grundy, Winston Churchill's beaches and just about anything by the Beatles.
Give us a hand with the list and we might have enough for a national register.
