Charlie Harding

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3,184 appearances 23 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6d ago

Charlie Harding’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Switched on Pop · The power of singing together (ft. Tiny Habits) · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

And whose fault is that, Charlie? matched

I would probably blame the multi-track recorder, but you're gonna point to a person? matched

The multi-track recorder, yes, which uh eventually, you know, allows folks like Ariana Grande to overdub themselves rather than singing in a choir. matched

I don't know. matched

I'm I'm tempted to blame the king of pop, Michael Jackson. matched

Sure, why not? matched

We can listen to the Jackson 5 singing harmony on Who's Lovin' You. matched

But if we fast forward to matched

You know, the best selling album of all time, thriller. matched

we don't hear group harmonies. matched

If anything, we hear like solo overdubbed harmonies. matched

Yeah. matched

But mostly it's just Michael out front. matched

Right, that Reagan era rhetoric of, you know, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and doing it yourself versus the sort of collectivism that had been a hallmark of the sixties and seventies. matched

And the music industry has a concomitant shift. matched

As you were saying earlier in the episode, we move from the age of the band to the age of the solo singer. matched

And that's, you know, what what we get in the 80s. matched

We get Madonna, we get Prince. matched

We get Michael, these like singular figures who are the the centerpiece of their artistic statement. matched

Could we say the move of the age of the band to the age of the brand? matched

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