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

Which song was it?

3 girls right at the front of crowd dancing during that Blue Jeans song

Six years was forever in the 70s

Yeah, it's the difference between 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon' and 'Are Friends Electric?'

Now it's the difference between McFly's 'I'll Be OK' and JLS's 'She Make Me Wanna' ;_;

I don't remember a specific reason for the 1976 Beatles singles reissues, but they were heavily promoted, with new sleeve art, and a couple of tracks (Yesterday/USSR) were issued as A-sides for the first time. I bought several of them, mostly for the B-sides (e.g. Rain, Baby You're A Rich Man) as there were no Past Masters comps at that stage.

David Dundas was the owner of the house in Camden Town where Bruce Robinson and Vivian MacKerrell lived in the late 60s/early 70s: the period that inspired "Withnail and I".

I think they'd moved out by '76, and they probably didn't have a tv anyway, but it would have been interesting to see the reaction to their landlord's appearance on TOTP.

"How like a god" etc, probably.

xp "{...} Nothing that reasonable members of society demand as their rights! No fridges, no televisions, no phones. {...}"

only one mention of Dr Kiss-Kiss on this thread - and I assumed it would be NOTHING BUT :-(

Right, so tomorrow's TOTP revival features the first punk reference.

Albeit "The Kid's a Punk" by Slik.

Jimmy Saville in a kilt. Thanks BBC.

Midge Ure is appearing in 'West Side Story' at the Drury Lane Theatre oh wait...

David Dundas clearly aghast at the prospect of having to perform while RubFlip caper to the right of him.

OK, this is the second time that Billy Ocean's outfit has matched the colour of the backdrop. Was this his 'thing'? Some kind of gimmick?

It's Fearne Cotton, singing on TOTP decades before she presented it. Oh wait it's Twiggy. They really let anyone be a pop star in the mid 70's, didn't they.

If they asked nicely.

And if they do Country Joe and the Fish numbers...

For a horrible second there I thought that DLT was hanging out by the toilets, but no, just another cheap mid 70's CSO effect.

...also it makes Hot Chocolate's percussionist's congas look like they're made of cardboard.

lol ABBA couldn't even be bothered to go on TOTP with their biggest single.

not even a very good video for it, surprised me.

and another bryan ferry single...

cherry appears to have left ruby flipper 8(

George McRae was rather lovely.

Didn't need the extreme close up of Steve Harley's massive teeth though.

am surprised those doors didn't kill someone

jesse green's keyboardist looks like a pound-shop eno.

xp Somebody nearly walked into one of them.

Steve Harley looked like he was trying to sing with a dislocated jaw.
Aside from Hot Chocolate, everything else was promo clips, recordings of previous appearances, or lacklustre performances.
And Bryan Ferry churns out another sausage pointless cover version for a single.

also...
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZHcjhQFDfM/Taqrm94FozI/AAAAAAAACFc/pazRIt6JNvU/s400/dear3

BLINDED BY THE SHITE!
REVVED UP LIKE A DOUCHE!
A RUBBER BUMMER IN THE NIGHT!

Can are on this episode apparently.

You should be dancing jumping about aimlessly and flailing your arms around like you're shooing away a bee

You should be flashing gusset

Robin Sarstedt, performing tonight on stilts.

Noel and Cliff clearly have the same hairdresser.

and tailor.

too much Noel Edmonds for anyone.

We haven't reached the saturation point of the peak Swap Shop years, but Edmonds gets increasingly irritating from here. Try to imagine him and Chris Tarrant swapping presenting duties on their respective Saturday morning shows.

RubFlip being worked hard this week, relatively speaking. That tape of Elton and Kiki pretending to goof around in a studio must have broken.

Also it looks like Can aren't going to be shown on the short version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2K9Zigc0w
...they followed Sarstedt.

dancer's miming but not knowing the words. TOTP seems to have a core dancing troupe too.
There's something really depressing about ALL TOTP episodes in that the people there look like they desperately want to be somewhere else.

need to watch it again but at least last night's had a good churn of acts - barely anything that had been on before. that said, the cliff song and the sarsted song were both things that were instantly forgettable, weak follow-ons.

Also it looks like Can aren't going to be shown on the short version...

Daft. It's their one and only appearance, isn't it?

I shall be there 23:40 tonight with my save DVD-r..

I'm surprised that they didn't show Can - thought it would have been right up the alley of a lot of BBC4 viewers.

I'm guessing sometimes the one that gets edited out is the one that's easiest to do.

Also it looks like Can aren't going to be shown on the short version...

Daft. It's their one and only appearance, isn't it?

Haven't they already been on? I'm sure I made some comment about before on this thread about Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay being the only people on the show older (and pervier looking) than the DJs? 1976 seems to have been an esp. successful year for Scottish artists: Slik, SAHB, Sutherland Bros., Gallagher + Lyle.

... and Irmin, that shirt open to the waist, nagl in a man of your years

Can were on that documentary that aired when they started this run, iirc. Maybe it was that.

Ah, that'll be it

Surely not the first time they decided to can the can on TOTP.

diamond among sequinned turds

Eddie and the Hot Rods are on this week.

Ah, punk looms

yes, filled with pink mohair...