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If you missed Top of the Pops 1964 to 1975 on BBC2 you can watch it until 12:14AM Sun, 24 Jul
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00zwrn5/Big_Hits_TOTP_1964_to_1975/
Plenty tasty tunes up until 1973.
Something happened then.
At least up til 1973 when it would seem as if something fell off a cliff and, all at once, accounting for taste was no longer a given.
I think 1973 coincides with my first teenage party.
I had a long conversation with someone of approximately my own age whose gender I could not determine in the course of polite conversation.
In no order:
1. A cover of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit by Patti Smith played on toy guitars, mandolins, banjos or ukules. The best covers for me are always optimally rendered on tinny plucked string instruments (Ed: Any connection with the name of this blog?)
2. Stevie Wonder ‘Uptight.’ Stevie, who I once wheeled a foldback monitor around on the Val Doonican Show in the Television Theatre in Shepherd’s Buah around the time John Lennon was shot for, was the first time I encountered charisma.
3. Another cover: Wuthering Heights. Sung by a man from the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire and member of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. At the Proms 2009. Produced by the extraordinary Roland Taylor. I tokk a picture – Henry Wood’s eye view of ‘interactivity’ at the Proms:
4. Hmm. Watch this spaice.
5 Hmm.
6. Hm
7. Again hmm.
8. Hymnen.
