Top of the Pops 1980

Bellycaster

Those of a certain age will love this. One of my favourite years in Music(although I have a few)

Great one hour Documentary.

That is all.

axisus

Don't have time right now, but sounds appealing. I'll try to catchy it later.

I love stuff from 76-79, my latter school years.

Bellycaster

Did you manage to watch it @axisus ?

I think the BBC did a few of these, a bit like the "I Love 1980" "I Love 1970" Docs they did, they might have done some 70's ones. It's typical BBC stuff, music intermingled with current affairs of the day.

I might try find some 70's stuff too.

JezWynd

Bellycaster said:

...it's typical BBC stuff, music intermingled with current affairs of the day.

...

That reminds me a series they used to run (on BBC 2?) The Rock And Roll Years - Current affairs footage cut to hits of the period. It was a good format, I'm surprised they haven't recycled it. Or perhaps they have and I missed it.

XWulfhere

They still do them now, the nostalgia shows. The footage is processed to make it look like its come off a long play VHS with the usual professional thought sparers pretending they can remember watching Snoop Dogg on The Word standing on Rod Hull's head when in fact they just saw the clip for the first time five minutes before doing the piece to camera making sure they follow the producers instruction to use the word 'iconic' and explaining tings in a totally different way to what actually happened.

Bellycaster

Wulfhere said: They still do them now, the nostalgia shows. The footage is processed to make it look like its come off a long play VHS with the usual professional thought sparers pretending they can remember watching Snoop Dogg on The Word standing on Rod Hull's head when in fact they just saw the clip for the first time five minutes before doing the piece to camera making sure they follow the producers instruction to use the word 'iconic' and explaining tings in a totally different way to what actually happened.









I bet you were gasping for breath just from typing that.

;-)

Phil_aka_Pip

Not seen ... but I would expect from the BBC that the 1970s were "about"

• The Osmonds
• Glam-influenced fashion
• Punk (latter half of the deciade)
  

whereas the 1970s were really about

• Rock growing up, progressive-wise
• Acoustic singer/songwriters
• Reggae becoming a lot more mainstream-accepted
  

Iamnobody

Phil_aka_Pip;746619" said:

Not seen ... but I would expect from the BBC that the 1970s were "about"



The OsmondsGlam-influenced fashionPunk (latter half of the deciade)

whereas the 1970s were really about



Rock growing up, progressive-wiseAcoustic singer/songwritersReggae becoming a lot more mainstream-accepted

It starts at 1980 so the 70's doesn't get much coverage - worth a watch actually cheers for the link OP.