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BeebRock - The BBC4/BBC3/BBC2/BBC1 Music Programmes thread
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Nice one Skid, as per usual
Really looking forward to TOTP 1985 stuff - a very interesting period in music.
Live Aid was seen as the turning point for British music - when the record labels and producers took more control over the charts, ushering out the more ‘avant-garde’ acts having chart hits - The Associates, ABC, OMD, Soft Cell, Dexys - leading to the Stock Aitken Waterman era.
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Welsh Megaman wrote: »Live Aid was seen as the turning point for British music - when the record labels and producers took more control over the charts, ushering out the more ‘avant-garde’ acts having chart hits - The Associates, ABC, OMD, Soft Cell, Dexys - leading to the Stock Aitken Waterman era.
*shudder*
Never thought of it that way but it probably explains why my interest in chart music faded about 1987.0 -
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Welsh Megaman wrote: »Nerdy pub quiz question (which I just found out watching music documentaries)...
Which Irish person links The Bay City Rollers And Beck?
Phil Coulter had something to do with the Rollers anyway so that’s the obvious guess0 -
Joe_ Public wrote: »Phil Coulter had something to do with the Rollers anyway so that’s the obvious guess
Boom!
Phil Coulter co-wrote ‘Shang-A-Lang’ for the Rollers - we also co-wrote ‘I Can Only Give You Everything’ by Them, which was later sampled by Beck for ‘Devil’s Haircut’.
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Welsh Megaman wrote: »Just watched ‘Top Of The Pops: The Story Of 1985’ - excellent
Gary Davies: ‘’Shakin’ Stevens. A real British institution.’’
That is all.
No doubt there is some gob$h*te saying the same about Ed Sheeran today.... :rolleyes:0 -
Welsh Megaman wrote: »Boom!
Phil Coulter co-wrote ‘Shang-A-Lang’ for the Rollers - we also co-wrote ‘I Can Only Give You Everything’ by Them, which was later sampled by Beck for ‘Devil’s Haircut’.
Gold star for Joe
Ah no, WM! The Rollers were my heroes as a nipper. I've no time for Phil Coulter and hearing he wrote a song I used to sing as a kid has left me scarred for life. Thanks! 0 -
For those with Sky Arts, decent-looking documentary about Hansa Studios this Wednesday...
Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-90
The story of the legendary Hansa studios in Berlin, which used to overlook the Wall and has hosted many well-known acts including David Bowie, Iggy Pop, U2 and Brian Eno.
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Less than 50 posts away from 10,000...
We've got to come up with a good name for the continuation thread sooner than later, folks. A name that's catchy, but isn't biased towards any channel (not even Sky Arts, who seem to have been in the ascendancy as regards music programmes for quite some time now).
Anyway, TOTP '85. While one could argue that things started to go a bit wrong for Pops in the second half of '84, with the gradual roll-out of the Clarendon font (may have worked for Barclays Bank, but was never really going to work for a TV show like Pops) and the introduction of the soft-rock version of "Yellow Pearl", '85 is generally accepted as the year the show's decline began, with a big increase in the number of videos (including the introduction of the Breakers segment, which somehow lasted nine years) and a reduction from 40 minutes to 30 (thanks to the arrival of some soap set in some square, with yer wan from Are You Being Served? in it).
Indeed, by the end of the year, even the acts themselves were giving out about the show - prompting the legendary Smash Hits magazine to do an article entitled, simply, "What's gone wrong with Top of the Pops?"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/22162053774/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/22163667543/
Nonetheless, all of today's viewers were looking forward to this year, the first where every episode could be shown - or nearly every episode (turns out four of them *do* feature certain men, as described below). Then, of course, it was revealed that Mike Smith had decided against allowing his episodes to be repeated...
And matters are made worse by the fact that he increased his appearances considerably in '85 - to the extent that over a quarter of the episodes can't be shown. The list in full:
10 January '85 (alongside Mike Read)
24 January '85 (alongside Steve Wright; first episode with the Breakers segment)
28 February '85 (alongside Peter Powell)
14 March '85 (alongside Gary Davies)
28 March '85 (alongside Peter Powell)
18 April '85 (alongside Peter Powell)
2 May '85 (alongside Richard Skinner)
27 June '85 (alongside Peter Powell)
18 July '85 (alongside Peter Powell)
1 August '85 (alongside Mike Read)
5 September '85 (alongside Peter Powell)
10 October '85 (alongside Steve Wright)
24 October '85 (alongside Dixie Peach)
14 November '85 (alongside Gary Davies)
5 December '85 (alongside Steve Wright)
19 December '85 (alongside Paul Jordan)
In '84 Richard Skinner and Gary Davies were particularly unfortunate in terms of hosting episodes that would end up being banned for one reason or another (not that they or anyone else knew it at the time, of course). In '85 it was Peter Powell's turn to suffer this misfortune - only eight of his fourteen episodes this year are allowed.
Fortunately, we will certainly get six of John Peel's seven episodes - the year opener alongside Richard on Friday, as Skid points out, followed by five alongside Janice Long. And of Janice's fourteen episodes, we'll certainly get twelve.
Which brings me to the four episodes that do feature certain men. The episodes of 6, 13 and 20 June (the last of these hosted by Janice, alongside Gary) feature the video for The Crowd's version of "You'll Never Walk Alone", in aid of the families of the victims of the Bradford City fire - and DLT and Rolf Harris were among the members. And Jonathan King was in the studio for the Christmas episode, alongside Peely, Janice, Gary, Dixie and Wrighty - he appeared in the final link, and his name was in the credits...
Ah, well. At the end of the day, what *will* be shown will still be hugely entertaining.
(It *is* kind of strange, though, that BBC4 are re-repeating '81 as well. But, of course, that's entertaining too.) 0 -
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Go Harvey Go wrote: »Less than 50 posts away from 10,000...
We've got to come up with a good name for the continuation thread sooner than later, folks. A name that's catchy, but isn't biased towards any channel (not even Sky Arts, who seem to have been in the ascendancy as regards music programmes for quite some time now).
Ah sure ... I'm thinking of something like "BeebRock - Music Shows on BBC Four, Sky Arts and everywhere else"
Keeps the branding in place (which is increasingly important in an increasingly fragmented social media marketplace!) while staying faithful to the thread origins and giving almost but not quite equal billing to Sky Arts.0 -
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