So I couldn't sleep last night

[BillyStubbsTears]

And ended up watching a re-run of Top of The Pops from 1980 on BBC4.

I'd forgotten how surreal that programme used to be. This was on it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhv2lhGZsNU

[BillyStubbsTears]

Not to mention the casual racism. This was on an all.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vkQ_WXH9OsY

Mind, it wasn't all bad.

The Jam, Hazell O'Connor, The Piranhas and Sheena Easton did it for me.

EDIT:

Only just realised those two dancers actually WERE black. I thought they were two blokes off the B&W Minstrels!

[jucyberry]

You should watch it with twitter.. It's always worth a chuckle.

[The Red Baron]

And ended up watching a re-run of Top of The Pops from 1980 on BBC4.

I'd forgotten how surreal that programme used to be. This was on it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhv2lhGZsNU

I'd forgotten that Bankrobber was as long ago as 1980.

Some of the routines that Pan's People and Legs & Co did just wouldn't be allowed now. Have a butchers at this one...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yio_ywKeSbk

[BillyStubbsTears]

Now then, now then, now then. I wonder who introduced that one?

[LongbridgeMGRover]

Thanks for sharing that. Happy memories of Donny Grammar disco nights at the Rugby Club. Hull Brewery Ale at 17p a pint, which had the effect of making the girls hockey players look like Pans People rather than the Dons line up against Huyton.

[LongbridgeMGRover]

https://youtu.be/7lhEdPbl73s

Those were the days. Anyone remember the above? Was played at Belle Vue in the good old days. Fancy a clean cut young Cambridge graduate calling himself 'Shag'!

I am surprised they can still put together a decent TOTP2 once the perverts have been airbrushed out of pop history

[BobG]

Good God above Longbridge!  Alongside that horrible Jonathan King effort I saw a vid of Son of My Father by Chicory Tip! Bloody hell. Not only do I remember that, but on one never to be forgotten night in the summer of either 72 or 73, me and half a dozen mates, away on a booze and seaside week in Newquay actually ended up at some dive there watching that lot. It must have been a pretty poor town....

BobG

[LongbridgeMGRover]

Wow BobG. That's poptastic!!!
71,72 and 73 were great fun years and I too have been enjoying utube vids of songs from these years. T Rex,Slade, Sweet,GG and cheesy classics like Benny Hills 'Ernie'.

I see 1967 was not such a good year? Was it?

 Although Snoopy versus The Red Baron from that year was possibly the first song to mention a regular Viking Chat contributor.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Good God above Longbridge!  Alongside that horrible Jonathan King effort I saw a vid of Son of My Father by Chicory Tip! Bloody hell. Not only do I remember that, but on one never to be forgotten night in the summer of either 72 or 73, me and half a dozen mates, away on a booze and seaside week in Newquay actually ended up at some dive there watching that lot. It must have been a pretty poor town....

BobG

MY heart bleeds for you. I spent 3 of my finest years in Loughborough and the best act I saw was Judge-f**king-Dredd.

[BobG]

T Rex and Slade I can listen to even now.  Both bloody fantastic as far as I'm concerned. There used to be a violin player in the orchestra I was part of who liked Slade too.... That kinda encouraged me!

Bob

[BobG]

I was at Warwick BIlly. They had bloody awesome bands there. From the top of my head:

Mud
Desmond Dekker (I wasn't a fan tho)
Heavy Metal Kids (Awesome band. Look up their front man)
Vitamin Z
Shusha (who, I have just discovered, died in 2008. I didn't know. She was a cornucopia of rare talents. Just shows how fast time is passing by. I heard her talking on the radio not so long ago. I'd have said 3 years or so.  It has to be at least 7)

That's upset me. Shusha was a really wonderful woman. And she could sing. I've still got a poster promoting one of her tours.. Very pleasing on the eye. I haven't got the heart now to finish tbat list.

Bob

[LongbridgeMGRover]

My three years were spent in Liverpool 75-78
Highlights were......
Lynyrd Skynyrd
ThinLizzy
But the best band in the local scene was Deaf School, who never got the recognition they deserved.
Then in my time on the Students Union, I took a risk and signed the cheque to pay a little known band called The Stranglers, who by the time they appeared were no 7 in the charts.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Bollock to the lot of yers

We had Judge Dredd, Sweet, Gary Glitter and Lenny Henry.

No wonder I got a taste for the ale in them years.

[Filo]

My three years were spent in Liverpool 75-78
Highlights were......
Lynyrd Skynyrd
ThinLizzy
But the best band in the local scene was Deaf School, who never got the recognition they deserved.
Then in my time on the Students Union, I took a risk and signed the cheque to pay a little known band called The Stranglers, who by the time they appeared were no 7 in the charts.

Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd is one of my all time favourite tracks

[eastender]

Not to mention the casual racism. This was on an all.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vkQ_WXH9OsY

Mind, it wasn't all bad.

The Jam, Hazell O'Connor, The Piranhas and Sheena Easton did it for me.

EDIT:

Only just realised those two dancers actually WERE black. I thought they were two blokes off the B&W Minstrels!

That song was originally written for Elvis by Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) , but Elvis died before he had chance to record it.
Mungo Jerry did release it as a B Side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EFW02xf7-4

[Nudga]

I would have loved to have seen The Stranglers and The Clash.

[BobG]

Sheena Easton for me too.

I had my first ever snog while In the Summertime was on.... Impel '70 if anyone can remember that far back...?

Bob

[BillyStubbsTears]

First lass I ever properly snogged was a dead ringer for Sheena Easton. She even had a pair of spandex trousers like La Easton had in this picture. A picture which I rather "enjoyed" as a young teenager and which I was delighted to find that Google had recorded for posterity.


My first squeeze wore those trousers and a boob tube to the school disco. She was 13 years old.

And they reckon that sexualisation of kids' clothing is a recent issue. Fortunately the 14 year old me, it was alive and kicking back then.

[wheatleylad]

Pans people were far better than Hot Gossip which came later....too skinny!