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Just watched a fascinating programme on BBC4 called Pop On Trial - an attempt to decide which was the best music decade.

 

presented by Stuart Marconi - I'd watch anything he presented...

 

Anyway - tonight it was the fifties - utterly fascinating....

 

one of the guests tonight was Joe Brown... Apparently his management tried to get him to change his stage name to Elma Twitch so that he could perform with a backing group and be called..

 

Elma Twitch and the Fidgets!! fortunately he told them where to get off!!

 

8)

 

i'd recommend the rest of the series if episode one was anything to judge it by.. (can be watched again for 7 days on BBC watch-again site - or pobably downloaded soon from UKNova...)

 

Phil

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PS...80s was the best decade for pop (followed by the 70s)....

 

Shurely shome mistake, Dan? :lol: def. 70's first, 60's, 50's....

 

Thanks for the post, Phil. I don't have BBC 4 though. :( We love this type of programme, as does daughter who is trying to pursue a career as a singer/songwriter.

 

She had a T.shirt especially made for me for Christmas. It's fab, I wore it to badminton;

 

Marc Bolan. Er, guess that says it all, doesn't it. :oops::lol:

 

PS. Just visited site, could listen to some tracks but not watch prog. as far as I could see.

 

Would be impossible to vote in '70's, how would I decide...T.Rex, Bowie, Led.Zep. & Deep Purple to name but a few! :lol::lol:

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Sheila - (see post below for instructions)

 

your daughter might also enjoy another recent BBC4 programme where Conductor Charles Hazlewood hosts a celebration of the magic of pop music and explores the skill and musical dexterity that goes into writing, performing and producing hit records.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b008nk4h.shtml

 

(has to be opened in IE, not Firefox!)

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PS. Just visited site, could listen to some tracks but not watch prog. as far as I could see.

 

Would be impossible to vote in '70's, how would I decide...T.Rex, Bowie, Led.Zep. & Deep Purple to name but a few! :lol::lol:

 

T Rex, Zep, Purple and Bowie - stride like giants across the Music Scene! You have good taste!

 

 

It's available on the BBC iplayer site: u can watch BBC progs (esp useful if you don't have digital for BBC 3&4) for 7 days after they are screened...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?q=pop+on+trial&go=Find+Programmes

 

(you need to open that link in IE not Firefox)

 

then you can either watch it there and then - streaming it online - OR - download the iPlayer (it should say "download software") below the video somewhere - then you can watch it for up to 30days saved to your hardware. After 30 days the programme self destructs!

 

 

enjoy!

 

Phil

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Doh! Missed it. I like that '50s, early British rock 'n' roll world. I think Maconie and Radcliffe the other night were musing on what was the first British rock 'n' roll record.

 

Never mind. BBC4 stuff tends to come around quite frequently. HP tried that watch-again thing for something last week. We've got broadband but it still took forever to download.

 

I see there's loads of pop related stuff on BBC4 this weekend and next week. Is Mr Maconie doing all of it I wonder?

 

 

Rockin' Richie T

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Got to be 80s for me - but I'm biased, as I was a teenager in the 80s!

 

I'll second that. It was the decade of my miss-spent youth too!

 

In fact, later this year OH & I are going to see some 80's artists at Wembley on the 'Here & Now' tour. Can't wait... :D

 

ooh, who is playing?? :D

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I've perfomed on the same bill as Curiousity Killed the Cat

 

Had a chat with Ben whatsit that day too in the hospitatilty room

 

I would also vote 80's then 70's.

 

BUT, sorry Phil, I wouldn't listen to the programme just because it was Stuart Marconi - he is one of those people who has me turning off Radio 2 (together with Aled Jones and Mo Dutta).

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ooh, who is playing?? :D

 

Rick Astley, Bananarama, ABC, Cutting Crew, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Paul Young, Johnny Hates Jazz.

 

They weren't my favourites of the time but should be fun anyway.

 

I went with Mrs clash to see a 80's tour at B'ham NEC in 2000, Heaven 17, Belinda Carlise, Bananarama (only 2 of them!!!), and headlined by Culture Club.

 

It would have to be late seventies for me

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When I first started work I convinced a girl I worked with that I was a backing singer for Terrence Trent D'Arby and that I had appeared on TOTP with Terrence (on the same night as Curiosity where I got to meet Ben). This girl was very gullible and swallowed all of my tall stories (even though I was at work bright and early on Friday morning straight after the programme)!

 

ROFL

 

When I was younger I played in a band, we played at all the top venues, openings, in front of royalty, with all sorts of famous people and everything. It was at a Royal Variety show at the London Palladium that I met Ben, we played at the Royal Albert Hall the night before. Thinking back it was March and it was probably around '86 or '87

 

Now I just run their website http://www.rdtc.org

 

Yes I am in one of the pictures on there, but it's a small one and you have to know which one I am and still can't see me really.

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I'm going to stand up for the 80s and 90s too. If I had to pick one type of music as my favourite I would say baggy from this time. A huge amount of my reliable favourite bands are from around this time and I honestly can't see how bands such as the Stone Roses and Primal Scream could be described as having no artistic merit.

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I too was a tennager in the 80's and therefore have an affection for this era, and I too would erase the 90's, the music now is pretty good, I am a reborn radio 1 listener and a lot of that has to do with the dj's on radio 2 being particularly irritating. :lol:

 

I think radio 2 have taken on all the irritating DJs that were on radio 1 in the 90s, complete with their music :? No wonder I've been sneaking on to Radio 4 lately :roll:

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