Posted on 06/21/2006 5:58:47 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist
Top of the Pops, one of the longest-running shows in British television history, will end its run after 42 years on July 30, the BBC announced Tuesday. With the show now attracting an audience of fewer than one million, "the time has come to bring the show to its natural conclusion," said the BBC's director of television Jana Bennett. During its lifetime, TOTP had featured virtually every major British musical group, and many American ones as well. Its first show, which aired on Jan. 1 1964, included a performance by The Rolling Stones, singing "I Wanna Be Your Man." At its peak in the 1970s, it attracted 19 million viewers each week, but in recent years it has fallen victim to MTV and the Internet. Jimmy Savile, the original host, told the BBC Tuesday, "In those days you would have to wait until Thursday night to get your [pop music] fix, and you don't need to do that anymore."
ROFLMAO!!! What the HELL was that!???!!!
"a performance by The Rolling Stones, singing "I Wanna Be Your Man."
The Stones doing a Beatles' song? I don't think so.
"Top of the Pops, one of the longest-running shows in British television history, will end its run after 42 years on July 30, the BBC announced Tuesday. With the show now attracting an audience of fewer than one million,"
Either audiences have fragmented so much that there is no crossover appeal anymore or else what we "know" as pop and what audience WANT to hear are two different things.
Yep. It happened.
hahahaha!
I just HAD to play that...didn't I?
"In those days you would have to wait until Thursday night to get your [pop music] fix, and you don't need to do that anymore."
Maybe they should switch to playing ROCK music. The kind written about lovingly in Mojo magazine (it's British).
There is so little actual rock and roll in the mass media (radio, television, movies) that I would be happy with a single tv program once a week.
"The Holiday Rap" by MC Miker G and DJ Sven. They were a pair of Dutch recording engineers who, in 1987, had a big hit in Europe and Canada with their remix of Madonna's song Holiday. If you think American white rappers are lame enough, they've got nothing on European ones.
Think again. The song was reportedly written FOR the Stones, before the Beatles exploded onto the music scene. Google search: Rolling Stones + I wanna be your Man
I Wanna Be Your Man was one of their first singles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuNdNeplBSw&search=i%20wanna%20be%20your%20man%20rolling%20stones
Watch the Stones sing it here
Way back in the mid- and late 80s, I used to take an aerobics class at a local gym here in Orlando. The instructor, this Ultra Queeny guy who used choreograph dance routines at Disney, included this 'song' in every one of his mix tapes.
I'd forgotten it had even existed until now--suddenly I'm awash in memories of striped leotards, leg warmers, big hair and this flaming little Femme boy in bright yellow spandex and floopy socks, yelling, "WORK IT YOU LAZY B*TCHES! WORK IT GOOD!"
Sigh... sometimes the 80s don't seem so golden, you know...
Did he look like this?
I love YouTube :-)
Funking fantastic!!! Great guitar by Brian and the camera was on him almost as much as Mick Jagger. This seems live and not done to a pre-recorded track. Your guess?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEn-irHVw4&search=brian%20jones
Mo Stones. Not Fade Away circa 1966
I'm speechless.
I Wanna Be Your Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_Your_Man
Lennon And McCartney wanted to be the next Goffin and King or even Rogers and Hammerstein.
That is, they wanted to be *the* standards songwriting team of their day.
To that end they gave/sold a number of their songs to other groups.
It's from some British show since they hadn't been to the states yet. But I can't place the show.
But I was always kinda partial to these guys....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZaWKkKR1M0&search=pretty%20things%20roadrunner
And this Howlin Wolf clip from a German TV studio in 64 is amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzc-WjFJO5g&search=howlin%20wolf
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