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Post by vastar iner on Dec 9, 2018 14:36:00 GMT 1
Getting there.
18.09. Peter "I'm Still Here" Powell introduces "Social Club". I suppose the BBC thinks the Timex bit is free advertising. It's completely anonymous.
Steve "Cockwomble" Wright is also presenting as Timex segues into Eurythmics. WHo are looking more like The Tourists now with a proper line-up. Rather rollicking, really.
Michael McDonald. This is a waste of time. f***ing lounge music.
Charts. The The keep going up but they don't get played. Is there a boycott? OMD do not get the dignity of capital letters. Neither does Farley Funk.
We go to a high climber. It's OMD at 24. Another band that has expanded. Paul is eschewing keyboards to take lead vox. How many acts have had their joint biggest hit from different vocalists - both of whom can be said to be lead singers? This is utterly classy. It's one of those songs that nobody believes wasn't at least a top 10 hit. Perhaps the wrong title? How many people went out to ask for "I Never Know Why"?
Breakerinos. Genesis with some total tosh. Huey Lewis with a decent video. And that's all we get. No The The yet again, were they on last week?
Cameo. Oog, I can guess what the debate in the school playground is going to be. I can't be bothered to listen to this again. Communards though look delighted to be no. 1, although their brass section is dressed as Russian constructive art with no. 2 all over them (I think it is meant to be Lissitzky). And Clare Hirst IS on sax, so she made it to the top at last.
Playout is Five Star, known in Germany as Funf Stunf. Dull.
One great song and two good. Best we could hope for.
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Post by o on Dec 14, 2018 21:39:38 GMT 1
Now that was a good episode, Bon Jovi, Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush, Red Box, Duran Duran, Berlin knocking Nick Berry off, and finishing with the Pretenders, even Swing Out Sister was bearable.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 16, 2018 13:42:42 GMT 1
25/9. God, I detest this theme. Janice Long turning up looking like an embarrassing mom at the school disco. The music is Run DMC but they cut to Amazulu. Bouncy. ALways something a bit odd when the instrumentation is complete. So we have a ragga style backing with synth, keys, drums and trumpet, but the only instruments on stage are bass and sax.
Huey Lewis & The News. Can't be bothered. Darryl Pandy & Farley Funk. Pandy has turned up dressed as an anaemic zebra. Kicks off his hat and shoes and finishes supine. Well, it's memorable.
Charts are dull. Genesis are appalling. Who seriously likes this crap?
Breakers. Funny Paul Simon video with Chevy Chase, who shows more comic prowess in this video than in his entire abysmal film career. Mind you, so does Paul Simon. Marti Webb with a television theme. Big Country with a countrywide video in the same vein as their previous stuff.
Next up, the best soul band in Britain, apparently. Damning with faint praise. Loose Ends. It is quite interesting; it's not soul by numbers by any means. The vocals are all over the place in the mix, they come in and out, which makes it sound contemporary, even daring. Much better than expected.
Top ten. The best song in it is at no. 1. Fair enough. I'm not sure all of Jimi's love is really for Sara-Jane though. I never noticed before how good the drumming is in this, it'a great bang thump run leading into the chorus that really elevates it. Funny how they swap vocal lines at the end.
Playout is Run DMC. No mention of Aerosmith at all. Bit unfair.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 16, 2018 14:16:47 GMT 1
Nine ten (eleven?). Davies and a 12 year old Simon Mayo. On commence avec Les Bangles. Debbie doesn't have her drums, in protest that they didn't let her play them in the studio? Bouncing around with a tambourine, at least she's selling the heck out of it. Susanna is not taking opening vox. But she looks ASTOUNDINGLY hot. I mean, good God almighty, she could burn the Arctic from the equator. That side-eye. Oh my God. Be still my heart.
Nick Berry. You know people say that the Nazis would never have been able to impose a fascistic regime in the UK because people would resist? Well, everyone who bought this would have been first in line to volunteer for the Gestapo. They are THAT willing to obey whatever genocidal suggestion is made to them. Like throw a Communist in a gas oven or buy this total sh*t.
So, the show has gone from 10 to zero and now back up to 10. Julian Cope on Ver Pops with his bent mike. I've actually got more Cope books than records. This is great stuff.
Charts. Sineater? Isn't that something from Harry Potter? OMD are going DOWN? Does not compute.
Paul Young with a song that sounds somewhat industrial. It is deeply uncommercial. Falls between two stools to some extent. The bass is twiddling up and down as if it's being shredded, and the keys occasionally blart in on the offbeat. Kudos for bravery. The lyrics don't really suit it.
Next up, Howard Jones, accompanied by Easter Island statues and a new Jed, sans mental chains but avec mental dancing. The art of writing involves choosing the correct words at the right time. I think the correct word to describe this is a bit tricky to ascertain, but I would suggest "crap".
Top 10. Hm, no breakers. Communards are down. Five Star miss out on a chart-topper, at least pro tem. Because Madonna has leapfrogged them. Hm, this is very different, very fifties tinged. Her best single by a long chalk.
Playout is the full version of Paul Simon. It's quite fun. Stands up well.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 17, 2018 20:05:27 GMT 1
You take sixteen ten and what do you get? Back to two DJs, the specky tw*ts of Bates and Wrong. With an "over the top" video we won't believe. After "Sledgehammer" I will take that with a pinch of salt.
We start with a former NME hack raiding his contacts book for free plugs. This isn't bad though. It stands on its own merits. Eff knows what that computer screen is about. Lyrics though are sub-Madness or Members.
The OTT video is, amazingly, Cliff Richard with Sarah Brightman, directed by Ken Russell, which is a fairly odd combo. But the video isn't really OTT, it's bad colour separation. She's hotter than I remember. It's not my cup of char.
Boris Gardiner has made it to the studio for his second [sic] hit. Just as boring as his last, albeit a bit louder.
Charty action. The Mission new in. They're still "Social Club". Amazulu non-moving, bit of a surprise. Segues into Marti Webb with a sailing love song, the theme from Howards' Way, which hit a slight speedbump when Tom Howard died. It was just about the yuppiest thing ever on television, a thing about a boatyard that made designer yachts, where everybody working or investing was posher than the Windsors.
Breakers. Housemartins with some odd dance moves but this is nowhere near as catchy as "Happy Hour". The Police have re-mixed or re-recorded a song that was pretty crap in the first place for no £vid£nt r£a$on. Midnight Star with some fake soul by numbers.
Oh, Christ alive, they're playing "The Wizard". Have they not cottoned on that despite getting airplay every bloody week nobody is actually interested in it? More people are buying Midnight bloody Star. And after it finishes they play it AGAIN because it's the top 10.
The no. 1 is atrocious. Can't we shoot everyone who bought this? I'm sure the country won't miss them. Finish up with an unusually pensive Status Quo.
Woeful episode. Everything was substandard.
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Post by smokeyb on Dec 17, 2018 21:54:08 GMT 1
Top of the Pops - The story of 1987 is on BBC 4 on Friday 4th January, followed by the some of the biggest hits.
that's the good news.
The bad news is if nothing changes over showing episodes hosted by Mike Smith then we will miss the following shows:
15 Jan, 29 Jan, 26 Feb, 12 Mar, 26 Mar, 9 Apr, 7 May, 28 May, 3 Sep, 17 Sep, 24 Sep, 1 Oct, 8 Oct, 5 Nov, 10 Dec, 25 Dec
That's 16 episodes including 4 in a row from 17 Sep - 8 Oct.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 23, 2018 11:07:47 GMT 1
23 October. Davies. We start with Julian Cope. Oh, no, he's just background. It's The Pretenders, who have come a bit out of nowhere. And who seem to look remarkably different to when they were at no. 1. It's OK, but veering dangerously towards the bland.
Although that's put into context with Midnight Star. Great name, great look (Prince cubed), but...well, it's all to detract from the lack of anything interesting in the music itself. Next.
Housemartins. Ehhh. It's all political - and uber-dull. Reminds me of Yes Prime Minister. "Plays attacking the Government make the second most boring." "What are the most boring?" "Plays supporting the Government."
Chartiness. New entries at 40, 38, 37, and 36 which will all make the top three. Catherine Stock enters at 26, so, given the pedigree of those entering below her, she's bound to vault to the top pronto. Only I've never heard of her. Is this ANOTHER bloody theme tune? That surname sends chills down my back.
Anyhoo. Sir Billiam of Idol. Looking mean and menacing with some hot backing singers. This is basically a three minute snarl. Interesting production.
Les breakeurs. Mission to start. Wow, this is actually pretty good. It is like a goth football chant. Needs a lot more than the few seconds the Beeb vouchsafes to us. Especially as the next one is Gwen Guthrie with a dire version of a dire single.
Cyndi Lauper, somewhere in the pea-souper that's enveloping the stage. She's way more interesting than Madonna. But less of a whore. This isn't my type, but it is plainly classy.
We've had Julian Cope in the background all programme but nothing in the show thus far. Top 10. Is Nick Berry embarrassed to have a no. 1 hit through nothing but saturation publicity and complete morons?
Playout is The Bangles on video. Poor Debs doesn't even drum in the video. God almighty, Egyptian Hoffs. I might need some me time.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 23, 2018 13:40:48 GMT 1
Brother's 10th birthday. Long dressed as the 102nd Dalmatian. We have Nick Berry on the show. Oh dear sweet f***ing God, he's still f***ing no. 1. Kim "yay" Wilde, Gwen "no" Guthrie, Catherine "who?" Stock in the studio.
But we start with Mel & Kim. They're cute. There's some sass here too. The one on the right looks like she's the motive force, the one on the left looks a little surprised to have made it this far. They have CDs as ear-rings, I think. Song is OK, but needs some more oomph. A non-generic backing might have helped.
Next up is a theme, Top Gun's, by Berlin. Interesting intro. Hm, it's taking a long time to resolve into something more definite. They've even got the chorus in the intro. Wait, it's still the intro. Are they not bothering to fill the gaps? That's a curious mis-step. Fun hair though. And I don't need to watch the film because the video shows it's standard Tom Cruise.
Next up is Catherine "who?" Stock. Yes, it is a theme. Fecking hell. This would make treacle think "wow, this is sooooo cloying". Straight out of the "Starting Together" playbook.
Gwen Guthrie. Utter sh*te. f***ing yuppie crap.
Breakerettes. Bon Jovi. Who actually sound like a breath of fresh air rather than substandard cock rock. The Smiths. Jangly and forgettable. Duran Duran in at 14, a rather catty "not as high as usual" from Long, perhaps because this is the Durannies entering their Fame period.
Kim Wilde, again though production is letting it down, her voice is buried under some cliched synth. Still, it's good to see her heading towards the single digits again.
Well, I know who is no. 1, and he can f*** off. Let's scoot straight to the playout. It's Status Quo. I've not heard this on these repeats before. It's not very Quo-like. Interesting drum rig. Given this is their biggest hit for a while, I wonder if Quo regret not doing more experimental stuff?
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 24, 2018 23:10:14 GMT 1
Sixyleven. Powell and Cockwomble. Bon Jovi looking a bit out of place in the studio rather than in a stadium. Both Latin words anyhoo. We're starting a Bon Jovi tribute act. We've got a great drummer and guitarist, so we're halfway there. This is positively euphoric and retro in an anaemic chart.
Video for Kate & Pete. Did he create the entire thing just so he could have a long cuddle with Kate Bush? I'm sure I ought to like this, but I find it dull and trite. Soz.
Red Box. Oh, they're not one hit wonders after all. They've expanded the band significantly. Lots of drummers, two of whom are cute. It's of a muchness.
Charts. Kate Bush in again. Bad timing. Swing Out Sister. My God, that singer is gorgeous. It comes close to being yuppie crap, but it's just about on the right side. Surprisingly enjoyable.
Breakers. Sir Bob with a single that got a lot of hype as being his first post-Band Aid. It's OK, nothing more. Some Shaky, totally forgettable MOR. We get about six seconds of a dramatic sounding track from Spandau Ballet but TOTP prefers the presenteeism of Duran Duran and their rather funky effort.
Top 10. Kim Wilde is BACK, baby. Nick Berry is OFF THE TOP!!!! About time. Berlin have topped the chart with their mad hair. Playout is Pretenders being Avengers.
Slightly meh show. Nothing ludicrously offensive. First for a while.
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Post by vastar iner on Dec 29, 2018 21:16:56 GMT 1
Vignt onze. Peel et Long. On commence avec Europe. Affreux. Comme le continent.
Les cerveux simples. Dansant avec les esprits. Ça n'impresse pas. C'est comme U Deux pour les pauvres.
Oscille dehors, ma soeur. Je peux répéter les paroles au-dessous.
Les tableaux. La boîte du flou. C'est très bon. Mais on n'écoute pas les filles de Birmingham, il faut regarder Effacement, avec leurs Quelques Fois. Eh, ceci est un bon chanson, mais le voix du chanteur rassemble celà d'Alison Moyet. Un peu surprisant qu'il est un il.
Les briseurs. Anita Baker avec quelque chose un peu jazzique. Ennuyant. Nick Kamen, qui est une védette parce qu'il veut nettoyer son pantalon. Sacré bleu, c'est un atrocité. Debbie Harry, avec ses bisous françaises, mais aux Etats-Unis, pas à la belle France. Le meilleur du programme, magnifique.
Bon, er, Jovi? Qu'est-ce que c'est? C'est toujours sur la télé, n'est-ce pas?
Le haut dix. Boîte rouge au 10. Tristement, Kim Wilde est au 2, bis. Parce que les idiots anglaises préfèrrent un film dingue.
Le fini? Eh bien, Boîte rouge. C'est la boîte fausse.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Dec 31, 2018 0:45:37 GMT 1
Vignt onze. Peel et Long. On commence avec Europe. Affreux. Comme le continent. Les cerveux simples. Dansant avec les esprits. Ça n'impresse pas. C'est comme U Deux pour les pauvres. Oscille dehors, ma soeur. Je peux répéter les paroles au-dessous. Les tableaux. La boîte du flou. C'est très bon. Mais on n'écoute pas les filles de Birmingham, il faut regarder Effacement, avec leurs Quelques Fois. Eh, ceci est un bon chanson, mais le voix du chanteur rassemble celà d'Alison Moyet. Un peu surprisant qu'il est un il. Les briseurs. Anita Baker avec quelque chose un peu jazzique. Ennuyant. Nick Kamen, qui est une védette parce qu'il veut nettoyer son pantalon. Sacré bleu, c'est un atrocité. Debbie Harry, avec ses bisous françaises, mais aux Etats-Unis, pas à la belle France. Le meilleur du programme, magnifique. Bon, er, Jovi? Qu'est-ce que c'est? C'est toujours sur la télé, n'est-ce pas? Le haut dix. Boîte rouge au 10. Tristement, Kim Wilde est au 2, bis. Parce que les idiots anglaises préfèrrent un film dingue. Le fini? Eh bien, Boîte rouge. C'est la boîte fausse. Courtesy of Google Translate: Vignt eleven. Peel and Long. We start with Europe. Awful. Like the continent. The simple brains. Dancing with the spirits. It does not impress. It's like U Two for the poor. Swing out, my sister. I can repeat the lyrics below. The tables. The box of blur. It's very good. But we do not listen to the girls from Birmingham, you have to watch Erasing, with their few times. Hey, this is a good song, but the singer's voice is that of Alison Moyet. A little surprise that he is a he. Breakers. Anita Baker with something a little jazzy. Annoying. Nick Kamen, who is a védette because he wants to clean his pants. Sacred blue, it's an atrocity. Debbie Harry, with his French kisses, but in the United States, not the beautiful France. The best of the program, beautiful. Good, er, Jovi? What is it? It's always on TV, is not it? The top ten. Red box at 10. Sadly, Kim Wilde is at 2, bis. Because English idiots prefer a crazy movie. Finished? Well, red box. It's the wrong box.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 3, 2019 0:29:27 GMT 1
Ah, I knew I should have said "au-dessus".
27/11. Gary Davies introduces stood next to a really cute lady who looks about 25, not a teenybob audience. FGTH start with something a bit Depeche Mode-y. Paul Rutherford is still useless. Holly looks like he is channelling Neil Tennant.
Debbie Harry with a touch of class, a really good (if forgotten) single. Followed up by Five Star to bring us right back down.
Charts are so dull the highest climber (Ultravox) go from 40 to 30. As if to some all that up, we go to no. 17 for Roger Whittaker & Des O'Connor, with "The Skye Boat Song" (aka "Over The Seas To Skye"). There's Rog, where's Des? Lots of whistling. Oh, there he is. Actually, it's not all bad. The bad bit is the pointless Des O'Connor, should have been just Whittaker.
In fact, as we go into the breakers, it's the second best song on the show. And remains so after Maiden by numbers, Genesis by numbers, and, leaving the breakers, Nick Kamen. I suppose the no. 1 is better but I'm bored with it. And the playout (Anita Baker) is not my cup of char.
Meh.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2019 18:26:09 GMT 1
1987 begins tonight on BBC4 with The Story Of and Big Hits regular episodes begin next week. Justin Lewis on Twitter has made a 1987 playlist
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 6, 2019 13:41:47 GMT 1
Elf zwolf. Light & Wrong. And that's just Jaki Graham. lol
"If this isn't no. 1 at Christmas, a huge black cloud will appear over my house." Housemartins with a blatant punt at the Chrimbo no. 1. No a capella in the charts for a while and now they're at no. 3. It's not that imaginative an arrangement though. Hugh does the bass and Stan & Quentin just do aaaaahs. It's had a massive climb though so this performance should take them to the very top.
And straight into the charts. That's quick, just two songs. Elkie Brooks is back. Alison Moyet too and we segue into her. Wow, this is brilliant. Really, really excellent pop song. It's like 1982 all over again. Boffo.
Breakers. Aaaaaaaad we're down to earth with the atrocious Cameo. But it kicks up with Dexy's, although this might just be Kevin Rowland. Cute video which refers right back to the opening credits of Brush Strokes. This is quite sweet. A-ha, with something by numbers. And this is weird, some surrealistic Bosch-esque plasticine animation to illustrate Jackie Wilson's "Reet Petite". What brought this on? Random. But it's at 14 and there's a huge buzz about it.
Back to the studio and it's, ah, George Benson, for whom yuppiedom has been a boon. Dull. Top 10 ends with the atrocious Europe. And we play out with Madonna, who, bizarrely, is still a thing.
This is a very Brexit show. Jaki Graham apart, the British acts were all sterling, the overseas act crap.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 22, 2019 23:11:28 GMT 1
Couldn't be doing with the Christmas edition. Straight into 1987 on the oneth of the one. Gary Davies but I'm more drawn to the rather sweet young lady wearing red behind him, a bit like Susan Tully with a Suzanne Sulley brunette cut. Very pleasant.
Anyway. Quo. God almighty, this is appalling. Even by their standards this is by numbers and it packs the punch of talcum powder.
A-ha are no. 5. With something that sounds like it was originally released before "Take On Me". Interesting video. Slightly warped and weird, dimensional confusion.
Alison Moyet. I was at a New Year's party and met someone who worked In The Industry. He recommended I take a punt on this getting to no. 1, even though it was a non-mover. He said it was actually shifting so much they couldn't keep up with demand. He also said The Housemartins might be the chief competition. It is a very classy single. I likes.
Davies saying that the top 40 is weird. Which is not surprising for a post-Christmas chart. But rare to acknowledge it. "A Spaceman Came Travelling" at 40 itself. Spitting Image at 22 with a forgotten follow-up hit.
Elkie Brooks having her first hit for a while. As she sings "I've seen the light" a light lights up a stained glass window. I wonder how long it took the director to come up with that idea. This is rather powerful, obviously it's in the Berlin slipstream, but somehow it deserves it more.
Gary Moore. He's gone all Big Country. Dull. We get to see Spitting Image even though they're a non-mover at 22 and are certainly not going to do anything more in the post-Christmas market. Norman Tebbit as Scrooge in the video, lol.
Top 10. Non-movers at 10, 9, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Only changes are Erasure and Knowing Me Knowing You A-ha! swapping, what are the chances? Jackie Wilson gets a no. 1 he can't enjoy, bit pointless. Housemartins ought to get a play, but because they've gone down ONCE they won't get another look in. Instead we get Madonna on the playout. Trying too hard. She looks better with black hair.
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Post by vastar iner on Jan 27, 2019 10:30:04 GMT 1
VIII-I. Not sure Blues have ever won 8-1. Or even 8-0. I've seen us lose 8-0 though. And win 7-1. Anyhoo. This is to delay Swing Out Sister. God almighty, Corinne was so, so, so, so, so gorgeous. This has lost all the vim and pep of "Breakout". As a song it only perks up in the chorus, which is quite a nice construct. It's also getting a spin despite being at no. 38, which suggests there is a load of marketing behind. I mean, when Fuzzbox entered at 38, they didn't get on, did they? Looks like Pepsi (or Shirlie) on backing.
Richie with some completely forgettable old cack that does not deserve any remembering whatsoever. Who the f*** bought this? Why not buy some air instead and put that on the f***ing turntable? Only works if you re-cast the video as a lesbian love song between two five years old.
More Septics now. The Gap Band. Great name. They're having fig bun, which is nice. Oh. Big fun. It's dull.
Charts. Iggy Pop is in the forty with "Real Wild Child", looking a bit like an architect on a weekend off. Highest new entry is Steve "Silk" Hurley. Who?
We go to The Pretenders, with something that starts really nicely, but goes down a notch when the instruments come in. Should have left it near-acoustic.
They're playing Hurley in the background, not noticed that. Breakers. The Igster is on video. Sort of. It's a live clip but the sound is plainly not from that performance. It's a fairly bland standard rock cover with an Alien Sex Fiend t-shirt. Robbie Nevil. This is atrocious. Like Simply Red on a particularly bad day. Paul Simon with "Boy In The Bubble". This is really good; rather dark and with a fantastic video. Wonder why that is the title? "These Are The Days" would have been more logical.
Top 10. Moyet at 3, my contact may have been right. Top 2 are still the same. Playout is Genesis, which sounds like a song made for a video.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Jan 27, 2019 10:55:48 GMT 1
I'd imagine when we get into the 90s, we will see R. Kelly tracks 'yewtreed' Celine Dion has pulled her duet with him from streaming sites due to the sex allegations surrounding him It does my head in.... Music is music and should be left alone for people to enjoy. If all of the music was taken down by people who had been accused of having relations with underage people then many of the biggest acts of all time would be gone.
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Post by SheriffFatman on Jan 29, 2019 0:35:11 GMT 1
I'd imagine when we get into the 90s, we will see R. Kelly tracks 'yewtreed' Celine Dion has pulled her duet with him from streaming sites due to the sex allegations surrounding him It does my head in.... Music is music and should be left alone for people to enjoy. If all of the music was taken down by people who had been accused of having relations with underage people then many of the biggest acts of all time would be gone. I find it very sad that we have to miss out, but I blame the perpetrators for that, not the BBC. Many of Saville’s victims are still alive, and I feel it’s right that they should never be at risk of switching on their TVs and seeing programs which celebrate him.
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Post by Tom on Feb 1, 2019 22:02:50 GMT 1
I've got catching up to do but actually watched this week's shows live for a change so some quick thoughts on those.
Standouts for me were Down To Earth and Respectable, it was a shame DTE never got to #1 and beaten by two oldies as well. I'm not sure whether I knew Behind the Mask was by Eric Clapton (may have just forgotten), definitely didn't know what it was called but recognised it instantly. I'm thinking I may have taped it at some point, don't think Capital Fm played it that much when I listened in the 90s, or Radio 1/2 for that matter. I haven't heard it for a long time either.
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