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Should you want an amusing reminder of what TV was like in the 1980s (or, if you’re a little younger,studio, alas, what you will see is Legs & Co dancing a slightly awkward-looking choreography to a medley of Mozart, Grieg and all. Presenter Steve Wright’s mickey-taking upper-class accent may speak volumes about how many perceived classical music, but the sales figures told a cheeringly different story – as we explore on p46, ’ charts success earned the RPO a potentially life-saving sum.