Good Riddance

[poliphilo]

The very last Top of The Pops. Yeah- I watched it. 

Forty years worth of bumptious little ditties and chaps in fancy dress. 

It was all so naff. 

Oh my God, that's George Best dancing (half-heartedly) to the Rolling Stones! If the show spawned so many iconic moments, why did they have to show that one twice?

I don't think Bowie was a spaceman; I think he was a plank. 

And the presenters. Yikes! I'd completely forgotten just how embarassing Tony Blackburn is!

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Aw, come on, it was so cheesy. There are better ways of presenting popular music...

[cybersofa.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was just a shoddy imitation of Ready, Steady, Go! Madonna but not Dusty - nuff said.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was prepared to wax nostalgic. In fact it had something like the opposite effect.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

It was always awful - but we watched it because it was all there was. Even when Ready Steady Go came along, two pop programmes a week wasn't too much.

All those bands miming to their records, all those rentacrowd youngsters dancing half-heartedly (sometimes to stuff that wasn't dance music at all).

And, as you say, the presenters. I always particularly disliked Tony Blackburn, but he couldn't match Jimmy Saville for embarrassing. And DLT...

I can't imagine how it survived into an era when there is a choice of music tv.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think it was the way the presenters were patting one another on the back last night and making their scripted quips- it suddenly struck me just how rubbish they and their programme were.

And yet I suppose there was a time when I thought it was pretty cool.