only1billybonds 7:57 Wed Jul 29
Music on the tele.
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Old Grey Whistle test. Loved it,always someone worth watching.
Top of the Pops. Essential viewing for any one growing up who loved pop music.
The Tube. Had a certain edge to it,again,essential viewinh
Ready Steady Go. Mini skirts galore.
In Concert. Lucky dip depending who was on.
Your favourites ?
This concerns West Ham as Bobby,Geoff a d Martin appeared on TOTP singing 'Back Home' in 1970.
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philj904
8:00 Wed Jul 29
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Rock Goes To College as bands played live, also Something Else was pretty good
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gph
8:07 Wed Jul 29
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Sound used to be terrible. When I first heard the Sex Pistols, I thought they were rubbish (forget which TV programme showed them).
When I heard them from a single, I did a rapid U turn.
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Far Cough
8:08 Wed Jul 29
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Six Five Special
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arsene york-hunt
8:17 Wed Jul 29
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Captain Pugwah (Trumpet Hornpipe).
Bill and Ben
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BRANDED
8:40 Wed Jul 29
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The Proms?
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Mike Oxsaw
8:44 Wed Jul 29
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Some of the early Channel 4 stuff was good (when they didn't have enough adverts to fill commercial breaks) - Gas Tank, I think it was, with Rick Wakeman.
I've found a couple of VHS tapes from that era that I will get around to going through soon to see what they contain.
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mallard
8:51 Wed Jul 29
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Old Grey Whistle Test was superb!
Some great live performances to name a a few ...
Starman - David Bowie
Tiny Dancer - Elton John
Go your own way - Fleetwood Mac
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Sven Roeder
9:04 Wed Jul 29
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How many of the Top Of The Pops hosts have had their episodes put on the banned list?
Jimmy Savile
Dave Lee Travis
John Peel ?
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Takashi Miike
9:14 Wed Jul 29
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some not mentioned I loved......
The White Room
The Word (not just music, but had bands on that other shows wouldn't touch)
Butt Naked
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chim chim cha boo
9:38 Wed Jul 29
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I loved Revolver with Peter Cook.
Old Grey Whistle Test's sound was fucking awful. I think the engineer must have been stoned but that show could suck all the excitement out of a band by making them sound like they were playing under water.
Shame it sounded so dead as there were some amazing acts on it.
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Takashi Miike
9:41 Wed Jul 29
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one of the best moments on whistle test was marriott taking the piss out of whispering bob :.)
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only1billybonds
9:46 Wed Jul 29
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Question for some fellow old cunts.
Whose Mum got the flying ump looking at the ol man when Pans People wereon TOTP? Oh,and in my Dad's case,Dusty Springfield,he used to fucking drool when she came on.
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zebthecat
9:51 Wed Jul 29
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Next! - SAHB
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geoffpikey
9:54 Wed Jul 29
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The White Room was decent.
Even Later was once very good once, despite the interference of boogie woogie cunt.
The Tube was haphazard. But I loved it.
Even TFI Friday had its "moments"
There's been plenty of good programmes since the Whistle Test... As long as the bands play LIVE.
And, in that regard, TOTP was always shit unless you were 7 years old.
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Northern Sold
10:01 Wed Jul 29
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Soul Train.... afros galore
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zico
10:12 Wed Jul 29
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I remember watching a music programme at school called Design Matters with Ultravox on it. It was part of our Art class and the documentary covered, music, videos, album and single covers and stage sets etc. Not sure if other bands did it but it was interesting stuff. Seem to remember there was a kids Top of the Pops called Razzmatazz on ITV I think.
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Bungo
10:25 Wed Jul 29
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I've always liked Jools Holland's programme. He has a really wide mixture of artists, all playing live, many of whom I've never heard of.
I've bought music I've heard on there, as well as hearing some stuff that I don't get at all. I usually find that those are the most interesting, trying to get what it is that makes some people like them.
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Sven Roeder
10:32 Wed Jul 29
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As said if there is something you aren’t keen on another artist will be on in 5 mins.
Always something or someone interesting on any show
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Iron Duke
10:38 Wed Jul 29
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I like a bit of Later with Jools.
Not exactly groundbreaking, but The Chart Show was a better alternative to Top of the Pops. I first heard Epic by Faith No More on there and got into them after that, so it did some good.
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joe royal
10:42 Wed Jul 29
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Talking of bands playing live.....
Metallica was asked to mime one of their ballads for the MTV music awards
They sang “So What”
This went out live.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jUSnO9rfvKQ
For some reason they haven’t been asked back.
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