The Rolling "Top of the Pops" BBC4 Revival thread.

So THAT's how they gonna ban the glitter...

These fuckers sound like Kings of Leon.

Smirking twuntbag Blackburn. Ruby Flipper ponce about to a disco version of Tubular Bells, ffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEkX-mcDlw

Billy Ocean should really have checked the colour combination of his outfit against the colour of the set.

Elton John (with Kiki Dee) really staking his claim as 'the 70's Robbie Williams' here.

SAHB's keyboard player's instrument has 'Professional Piano' written on the back, just in case anyone was in any doubt. Alex himself looking like he's just walked on stage after a serious night out.

The obligatory 'DJ surrounded by women' crepe-o moment.

Waitin' on the repeat now.

It's 'alright', the Sutherlands, but think of it like this: within 7 years we would have "Blue Monday" New Order.

I didn't think Ruby Flipper's TubBells was so bad, at least the whole idea they'd take on more complicated routines seemed to be happening. As opposed to just sort of 'moving around a bit' when they had to do "heart on my sleeve"

do I get points for spotting the Blue Peter Garden?

no. which other garden would they use?

anyway, re iplayer, you were right:

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there are two versions available, but get_iplayer doesn't, afaik, allow you to get at the second, longer version.

will have to look into it. i have 10 hours according to the expiry time...

David Hamilton looks at the weekly pop chart and introduces Pilot and Brian Ferry TO EACH OTHER.

Smirking twuntbag Blackburn

He is by no means the worst plus he actually liked music, which was unusual, someone upthread said Edmonds was a music fan but I've seen little evidence of that, he admitted as much himself

When do the Kid Jensen years kick off?

Apparently, his timeline on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presenters_on_Top_of_the_Pops has it he begins this year.

Ah okay, he always seemed to be enthusiastic about music. Apparently still calls himself Kid though which is kinda wishful thinking. Sonic Youth syndrome.

Well, he dropped it at the end of his Radio1 tenure, but I guess it's a 'condition of employment' at Capital Radio, "Smooth" or wherever else he is thesedays...

Ideally these would be preceded by the relevant Nationwide and Tomorrow's World. Panorama afterwards, perhaps. And a full John Peel show on the radio later. Is this too much to ask, BBC?

So that was great prom right guys? The Janacek was awesome in particular.

Lemmy movie on tonite.

Ideally these would be preceded by the relevant Nationwide and Tomorrow's World. Panorama afterwards, perhaps. And a full John Peel show on the radio later. Is this too much to ask, BBC?

Last week, when Hamilton suggested I tune in on Saturday for Seaside Special I really really wished I could.

Yeah, and tone plugged it too.

oh maybe it was tone. I got a bit lost imagining what i'd see.

Should have just checked the wiki:

10 July 1976
Location - Southsea
guests Lulu, Mike & Bernie Winters, Janet Brown, Dream Express, Ron Martin, host Paul Burnett, and New Edition

17 July 1976
Location - Blackpool
guests Al Dean, Kate T. Fields Rod Hull and Emu, Little and Large, New Edition

24 July 1976
Location - Southsea
featured acts from Gerry Cottles Circus.
guests Tony Monopoly, Paul Daniels, Cannon and Ball and Explosion (the original pre-duo trio), Surprise Sisters, Mary Chipperfield – chimpanzee act, Jacko Fossett and Little Billy, Cimarro Brothers, host Mike Reid, New Edition

Cannon and Ball and Explosion

Want to know more!

Even their Wikipedia page starts at 1979.

He wasn't with them long and then he got fired.

I should sell them that joke btw

Boom Boom!!

Good to see a young Les McQueen there, handling bass duties on "Dr Kiss-Kiss", back in the days before it all turned sour.

It's a shit business.

On BBC4 tonight at 7:30PM.

Cannon and Ball and Explosion - oh, this must be someone goofing around with the Wiki page, surely? Yeah, Little and Large really got going once they dropped second straight man Medium. And thank goodness Hinge & Bracket jettisoned Fixing Screw.

Talking of Wiki japes - the C&B Wiki page currently seems to have been merged with that of Adam Ant...

I think it probably is messing around - this article says they were a trio for a bit ("with a guy called Stan on the keyboard"), but also implies that they'd become a duo by Opportunity Knocks in 1969.

Sunfighter - never heard of them - and the awful Queen pastiche 'Drag Race Queen'.

Ruby Flipper do the can-can dressed as Russians to The Beatles' 'Back In The USSR'.

Noel successfully breaks the world record for using the word 'successful' as many times as possible in a sentence.

QUO!

fat Russell Brand Demis Roussos

I think my mother had a blouse made of that shirt material.

I have just learned that one of Sunfighter's many guitarists is Sarah Harding's estranged father.

If that's a Demis Roussos I'd hate to see a full one (Circa 1976 joke)

yes, sunfighter, who dey?

the butterfly song also completely unfamiliar.

a question: what are the wings song and the shangri-las song in the top 30 countdown?

ok, wikipedia says for the wings:

"Silly Love Songs" / "Cook of the House"
"Let 'Em In" / "Beware My Love"

both released in 1976, both reached #2.

and shangri-las:

The recordings for Morton featured lavish production with heavy orchestration and sound effects, and their next and biggest hit, "Leader of the Pack" (U.S. #1, UK #11), climaxes with roaring motorcycles and breaking glass. UK re-issues peaked at #3 in 1972 and #7 in 1976.

glamour puss? history has not been kind.

Wings' track is 'Silly Love Songs'.

Singing a song whose lyrics namecheck Superman is not going to work unless you're Laurie Anderson.

Shangra-Las' is indeed 'Leader of the Pack'.

This is a good site for chart stats, the cunningly named Chart Stats.

Anyone else think that the Glamour Puss on the left looks vaguely familiar? I can't place where from and can't find out who were in Glamour Puss.

BTW Jonathan King was edited out of that edition - he was on just before Glamour Puss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i524U9YfyXs

was that a necklace of teeth demis was wearing?

(JK might be on the long version)

Even Edmonds thinks this is shit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta3EeMi4Ll4