I used to believe that every time a song was played on the radio, the band was actually at the radio station playing it. I wondered how they did it, setting up so quickly between songs and sometimes going back to the same radio station 2 or 3 times a day!

Laurie

I used to believe that bands actually played their songs at the radio station into a microphone so we could hear them play. I thought the commercial breaks were so the bands would have time to switch out for the next band to come in and play the next song.

Chrissy

I used to beleive that the songs on the radio were always performed live - I thought that they must have a lot of energy to sing the song at 11:00 p.m.

Lee Hogan

I used to think that when I heard songs on the radio, the actual group was in the studio performing at that moment! I always wondered how they had the space for so many different bands!

Anon

I used to believe that every band or singer on the radio was right there in the radio station. I figured that they needed commercials to give each band time to run out of the studio and the next band to go in and play their song.

Susan P.

I used to think that when a song was on the radio it was the actual band playing it live,and that there were lots of bands waiting in a studio to perform their particular song. It never occured to me that it was someone playing records!

joolz

I used to believe when I was little, that the music I heard on the radio were live bands playing. After every song, another group would play.

Anon

When I was little, listening to country radio with my older sister, the DJ would say things like "And coming up we've got Shania Twain for you" etc etc... so I thought that they had all these rooms with the different bands in them and they switched back and forth when the song changed...

Kay

When I was little my mum used to have the radio on while she was doing stuff around the kitchen and I used to dance away to it while she worked. I understood what pop bands were because I had seen them on Top of the Pops, but I used to think that the bands used to go down to the radio station each time their song was played and do it live in the studio. I thought that it was VERY nice of them to take time out of their busy schedules to do this and thought they had to wait in a queue for their turn to play and get their song on the radio.

Young and Deluded

Back as a small child when I was finally old enough to identify what a radio was but before I was old enough to understand what records had to do with them, I believed that everyone I heard on the radio was performing live. I had this image in my mind that they were all gathered in a big room someplace and they would all take turns sitting around, waiting to be announced and then step up to a microphone and sing their hit song. Then when they were done, since I might hear the song several times during the day, I imagined they would all go sit down and wait around until they were called to perform again.

Kris

I used to believe that when my mom would listen to the radio, i thought there were little people in the radio with instruments playing the song.

Jim Carrey

When I got my first radio, I thought that my favorite band(s) were playing into the microphone at our local radio station....so every song was live!

Carla

I use to think music from the radio was live music.

Robin

I used to believe that the music I heard on the radio was always live, so I didn't understand how bands could travel from one radio station to another in a matter of seconds.

Val Spal

I'm sure that Im not the only one according to some posts but I actually thought that all the songs on the radio were played by the musicians themselves on site.LOL...I can just picture the confusion , bands setting up and taking down their equipment , bands coming back to the station 5 hours later only to do the same song.

Ken J

I used to beleive that the bands were at the radio station playing their music live. I could never figure out how they all fit in that small booth.

Chirstine

I used to believe that when listening to the radio the music was being played live by the band. If my Mum ever switched to a different station and I heard the same song I imagined that the band had piled into the back of a van and sped across town to the next studio.

Paul N

I used to believe that every time a song played on the radio that the actual band came in and played there song... I always thought those radio people were very busy rushing people in and out of the studio.

Tracey

When I was younger I used to think that every time a song was played on the radio, the band would have to play it live, again and again and again. I imagined some sort of large building where all the bands worked and played their songs a few times a day. I thought they must get really bored just waiting around for their next turn.

Leslie

As a child, I once believed that every time you hear a song on the radio, the singers were at the radio station performing it live.

Marlene