GMach1
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RE: What TV show did you last watch?
BBC Four-Top of the Pops..the Story of 1989(recorded). My god some of the people in that programme have aged really badly. Chris Rea I hardly recognised, Marc Almond looks very grizzled, Shaun Ryder looked like a Doctor Who alien but Lisa Stansfield still looked good and Sam Brown(Joe Brown's daughter, once a blonde). I don't remember a lot of 1989 and I didn't remember it was a very hot summer, but I do remember the surge in band from Manchester, so called Madchester thanks to the Hacienda Club run by Tony Wilson(Factory Records) and on the TOTPs you had bands like Texas, The Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Jason Donovan(with Stock Aitken and Waterman) and Caron Wheeler from Soul II Soul(mentioned on the trivia thread) It was fascinating to relive the sights, sounds and people of 21 years ago-I was 23 back then but not into the dance scene or that acid-house crap.
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hornball
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RE: What TV show did you last watch?
(13-01-2020 19:24 )GMach1 Wrote: BBC Four-Top of the Pops..the Story of 1989(recorded). My god some of the people in that programme have aged really badly. Chris Rea I hardly recognised, Marc Almond looks very grizzled, Shaun Ryder looked like a Doctor Who alien but Lisa Stansfield still looked good and Sam Brown(Joe Brown's daughter, once a blonde). I don't remember a lot of 1989 and I didn't remember it was a very hot summer, but I do remember the surge in band from Manchester, so called Madchester thanks to the Hacienda Club run by Tony Wilson(Factory Records) and on the TOTPs you had bands like Texas, The Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Jason Donovan(with Stock Aitken and Waterman) and Caron Wheeler from Soul II Soul(mentioned on the trivia thread) It was fascinating to relive the sights, sounds and people of 21 years ago-I was 23 back then but not into the dance scene or that acid-house crap.
Do you not see these TOTP retros as just another lazy - couldn't be arsed - attitude from the Beeb?? GMach?? BBC Four was intended to be a niche channel for what appeared likely to be the last frontier of true PSB (or what was left of it) output from the corporation. amidst the ever increasing - and seemingly never ending - populist, dumbed down excretion everywhere else across the 3 other channels!
The Beeb were going to pull the channel altogether remember - telling that they weren't going to touch any of the afore mentioned output elsewhere - until they were prevented from doing so! Shame that a basic standard for its continued airtime, was not imposed at the time!!
Why can't the BBC use the TOTP retro slot to bring us up - to - date exposure of the current music scene?? I could not tell you, for the last number of years actually, who is what and where in the charts
(This post was last modified: 14-01-2020 14:41 by hornball.)
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