yngwies Cat
6:46 Sun Aug 2
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Cheegers Plays Pop
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Darlo Debs
6:37 Sun Aug 2
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All the guests on a hootenanny doing Enjoy Yourself a couple of years back.
Also give them.their credit Status Quo did a grand job of opening the show for Live Aid
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oioi
6:30 Sun Aug 2
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Chaka Khan singing at Aretha Franklin’s funeral is superb too
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oioi
6:28 Sun Aug 2
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Takashi Miike 9:49 Sat Aug 1
I love that clip. Eric Burdon & Chris Farlowe look like schoolboys. My 2nd favourite music clip on YouTube.
My favourite clip is Paul Weller & Amy Winehouse singing Don’t Go To Strangers on the Jools Holland prog.
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Takashi Miike
9:49 Sat Aug 1
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I wish I'd seen this go out live. Otis Redding, Eric Burton & Chris Farlowe doing 'Shake' on RSG. it's superb
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RUcTKjOQWII
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matchless
8:10 Sat Aug 1
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No mention yet can I see of Jack Good's Oh Boy programme. Proper rock'n'roll with Freddie 'Fingers' Lee et al.
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geoffpikey
5:25 Sat Aug 1
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By accident, caught some performance of The Damned on Whistle Test earlier today (some freeview channel, was just hopping). "Smash It Up". Great records, but fucking hell... what a DREADFUL live band. (It wasn't even their earliest days either.)
All for a bit of punk riotousness, but they appeared to be playing four different songs each. Shambles, hahaha!
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ted fenton
1:38 Sat Aug 1
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Loved the "Old Grey Whistle test" would often see a new Band on there and go out the next day and buy their Album Supertramp Focus America all come to mind happy days !
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Vexed
12:37 Thu Jul 30
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The chart show was good. On a Saturday late morning with some cunt clicking about on a mouse on screen lining up the videos.
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oioi
12:31 Thu Jul 30
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Who's on top of the pops then, eh?
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paulon
12:31 Thu Jul 30
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Was in the audience for a few live gigs (Cult, Prefab Sprout, King Kurt, Spear of Destiny) for a C4 show called Bliss circa 85 inside a shed in a car park with Janet Street Porter pushing all the cool good looking BOATS like me to the front
Good gigs but the show was fucking rubbish
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Northern Sold
12:18 Thu Jul 30
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Mate was doing some plumbing work at Chris Evans gaff when he was hosting TFI... managed to nab a few tickets for us lot (mates and other halves) ... guests what I can remember?? Kula Shaka, David Seaman (absolute gent) and Cornershop (Brimful of Asha) ... oh and Chris Evans was not the absolute twat I'd thought he to be... good days
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Bungo
11:58 Thu Jul 30
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I seem to remember TOTP on BBC1 clashing with the Six Million Dollar Man on ITV which led to some monumental clashes over which one to watch between me (about 8), and my sister (about 14).
Pre-VHS and only one TV in the house made this about as serious as it got.
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Nagel
11:36 Thu Jul 30
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Agree with Iron Duke on The Chart Show. First place I saw/heard The Fall, Nick Cave and a lot of others.
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Toe Rag
11:32 Thu Jul 30
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Black Grape on TFI Friday with Shaun Ryder swearing his fooking head off when they covered Pretty Vacant was a great moment of tv hahaha
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ChillTheKeel
11:24 Thu Jul 30
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Thursday night- Big Shop then TOTP. Those were the rules.
Other great shows were N Sign Radio, Behind The Beat, Dance Energy and BPM.
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Westside
10:41 Thu Jul 30
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Always enjoyed Later, with Jools Holland, been twice.
Was (pre Covid) very easy to get (free) tickets, for the filming. Register on BBC website and enter random draw. Two tickets per application.
Seen quite few gigs/recordings going down this route.
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only1billybonds
10:17 Thu Jul 30
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Some very good music documentries on Netflix. Saw one on Lynard Skynard recently and it was excellent. Also 'Muscle Shoals' tells the story of the recording studio in Alabhama and is very good.
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Russ of the BML
9:32 Thu Jul 30
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I was a bit too young for Whistle Test first time around so my introduction to music was Top of the Pops.
TOTP was staple for me. But that was when pop music was half decent and had a bit of credibility. I know I sound like and old git but pop music these days is just generic crap with an odd gem every now and then.
Luckily, my music taste has got better as I got older and through BBC4 and Sky Arts who show The Old Grey WT I have been able to see those.
I have also been watching TOTP on re-runs now for bloody ages. I caught it up a few years back and it was about 1978 and I have now made it all the way up to 1989. It's a bit shit now but will persevere with it as it probably gets good again around 93-94.
I find Sky Arts good for music shows.
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Takashi Miike
9:14 Thu Jul 30
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Cue The Music, the bloke was called Mike Mansfield
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
9:02 Thu Jul 30
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The Word - had some great and some out there bands that wouldn’t have got on tv otherwise
TFI - always has some big named bands
The chart show - no presenters to worry about and a focus on specific genre charts each week which meant big exposure to some tiny bands.
I also like some weird late night show. I’m certain it was called behind the music with some old white haired bloke. Always on around the same time as Get Stuffed.
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