{"id":45878,"date":"2024-08-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0ce7d3d3-f3aa-470d-ab8c-b73d82e39008"},"modified":"2024-08-06T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:07:15","slug":"can-music-influence-political-elections","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/can-music-influence-political-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Can music influence political elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Tuesday, 06 August 2024 at 13:00 PM<\/p>

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Read on to discover the surprising influence of music on elections throughout history…<\/strong><\/p>

It was a little bit of history repeating when former prime minister Rishi Sunak<\/a><\/strong> announced the 2024 UK General Election to the heckling of his political opponents blasting out D:Ream\u2019s \u2018Things Can Only Get Better\u2019. Here was a cross-generational gesture of musical parody, to the time when D:Ream \u2013 including Brian Cox on keyboards \u2013 sang the sounds of Labour\u2019s landslide victory in May 1997.<\/p>