"...What I can tell you is that a song cannot be a hit if it is not played at least on the radio and played frequently at that. It is a simple fact, it is how it works, always was and always will be. Media coverage, adverts etc, can help but without radio forget it, if you are talking about having a hit. Harsh realities but not entirely depressing, as if anything with the current shell-shocked and quite vulnerable state of the music/entertainment industry, (not necessarily my term but quite valid I believe) no one believes anymore in any former cocky certainties and do therefore react much more currently to genuine punter response. For the most part they do not care what they play, they do care intensely that you keep listening and the upshot is that they totally freak when you let them know that you and your friends do not think that they are worth listening to and that that you will be going somewhere else!!! This is the reality and you do have the power more so at this point in time - so believe it." "For example when I visited the BBC Radio Two one evening last July, for an interview with DJ Mark Goodier, it was absolutely apparent how astounded they were with the amount of e- mail they had received regarding my appearance on the show. Collectively, I witnessed the production team seemingly suddenly recall how important a band Simple Minds were to so many people on a global scale. It did not offend me - they had just forgotten and needed to be woken up and indeed woke up instantly. Don't tell me that they and their ilk are not easily persuadable by such a show of fan power as on this occasion. Our fans won us great exposure that night. Suddenly they were playing six Minds tracks - or so - instead of one or two!" "What I am saying in effect is that, if you felt so inclined and really, really, really wanted to hear or see the band playing" Cry" then bombarding the relevant radio/TV stations with your requests may not be the worst solution - this is what I did when I was a desperate music fan starved of the kind of things that I wanted to hear. You may just find to your surprise that a lot of these programmers want to be told what to do, after all why do they spend all that money on research from people just like you. No need to hang the DJ exactly, but you might want to point them in the right direction! Of course you would be doing us a big favour too!" Jim Kerr (Originally written for the promotion of Cry). 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