Cuttings

SINGLES GOING UNSTEADY THE WEDDING PRESENT  Hit Parade II ( RCA/All formats ) THE SEVEN-INCH single is about to die. Think about it. The chunky plastic coins that once mapped out the progress of millions upon millions of adolescences are heading for the knacker's yard. And accompanying them are the component parts of a culture that still retain a tear-jerking romance: Top Of The Pops , proper jukeboxes, Sunday evenings spent crouching next to the radio to hear the Top 40. They're all expiring, forced into the afterlife by multiformatting, declining sales,  The Chart Show and Altern 8. Still, never mind, eh? The Old World isn't quite dead. It's found its last champion in a scruffy ex-student who loves the seven-inch single like a close relative. He likes appearing on TOTP . He's probably a bit miffed that Pan's People weren't around to shake their stuff to his records. So he hatched the one-45-a-month scheme to guide several thousand Wedding Presen