The Last Time
Yer wan over at Sigla has a very nice piece on TOTP and lists three of her favourite moments from the show.
Tonight at 7pm on BBC2 Top of the Pops says farewell to our screens. I wasn't an avid viewer of the show, put off by the plethora of crap that the music industry said we should listen to and watch. Thankfully, the "long-tail" effect has taken its toll on vapid media packages like this, to be replaced hopefully in the future by Pandora.com-like music TV in the burgeoning digital era.
But there were some fine moments to be thankful for. Who can dislike Marc Bolan's Bang a Gong performance with Elton John on piano.
Remember when we all looked in horror at Daniel O'Donnell singing I Wanna Dance With You. It sent our reputation as a progressive nation in the mid 90s back a hundred years.
The most outstanding moment on TOTP was again before my time. The Rolling Stones appeared as the first act on the show in 1964 singing "The Last Time". So hip it hurts. (Watch out for George Best dancing in the audience).
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Published by Colm.
Tonight at 7pm on BBC2 Top of the Pops says farewell to our screens. I wasn't an avid viewer of the show, put off by the plethora of crap that the music industry said we should listen to and watch. Thankfully, the "long-tail" effect has taken its toll on vapid media packages like this, to be replaced hopefully in the future by Pandora.com-like music TV in the burgeoning digital era.
But there were some fine moments to be thankful for. Who can dislike Marc Bolan's Bang a Gong performance with Elton John on piano.
Remember when we all looked in horror at Daniel O'Donnell singing I Wanna Dance With You. It sent our reputation as a progressive nation in the mid 90s back a hundred years.
The most outstanding moment on TOTP was again before my time. The Rolling Stones appeared as the first act on the show in 1964 singing "The Last Time". So hip it hurts. (Watch out for George Best dancing in the audience).
tags:totp
Published by Colm.
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