First time I ever saw lip-synching was on American Bandstand, Van Morrison doing Brown Eyed Girl.
You need to find the clip of PiL/Public Image Ltd. on American Bandstand. Johnny Rotten/Lydon (Ex-Pistol) wasn’t having ANY of it and made sure to expose the fraud...
If watch it, you can tell that Van wasn’t very pleased about it either. H elooked bored, then almost angry. I think everyone on American Bandstand had to lip synch. I remember seeing Randy Bachman on there with his guitar singing “you Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” and no Turner or Overdrive. I guess the rpesence of his guitar made him look legit, but where were the sounds of the drums, keyboards, bass and rhythm guitar coming from?