Sunday 29 May 2011

Something to do this bank holiday

EDIT: News this morning that Flick Colby has died of cancer aged 65.



"Can you name the presenters (not including celebrity guest hosts) of BBC TV music show Top Of The Pops?"

Also from the online banks, for the 900th show in July 1981 TOTP introduced Yellow Pearl as its new theme, for which Jimmy Saville gave Phil Lynott his official title.

3 comments:

Steve Williams said...

I love that clip, the most frantic ten seconds of television imaginable. Also from that episode is this montage...

http://youtu.be/WazYqtFmTUU

...which I think is ace, you wouldn't think it was from 1981 because it moves so fast. It must have taken ages to do with the technology of the time, and also serves as a great showreel of what Quantel could do in 1981. Look at the fiddling with the BBC1 globe!

Neu75 said...

Best ever TOTP theme tune and titles.

And it's Savile, BTW...

wilberforce said...

i know the following isn't relevent to this particular entry but as it's a general one rather than a specific episode review and is the latest entry (and there doesn't seem a way to put general points otherwise) please bear with me...

a while nack i mused how the TOTP technicians dealt with extraneous noise from acoustic instruments whilst acts were miming to recordings - well i've just watched the latest queen documentary that was shown on the beeb last night, and roger taylor helpfully enlightened me (and maybe others) by explaining that "the BBC actually had a set of plastic cymbals that went "dnnh" when you hit them so it didn't then make any noise"... thanks for that roger!

also in the show, in a clip of the "lost" TOTP recording of "7 seas of rye" DLT is on stage with the band aping freddie's air-guitar routines, but using a broom instead of a mic stand - what a card!