LETTER FROM BRITAIN

'Recession rock' on the radio (cf. "My City Was Gone," "Allentown" or "Out of Work") may call forth condemnations from America's urban mayors-many, I notice, on holiday in Florida at the time of com rnent-in The Wall Street Journal. But t'aint so in Britain; we had a billion har bingers of No Future back in the late `70s and now that we've arrived where it isn't we have synthpop by the school-full.