The only 1970s musician I can think of who openly flirted with (implied) homosexuality as part of his image and whose career actually benefited because of it was David Bowie.
I appreciate this "news" is three weeks old but I only discovered by chance last night that Trevor Bolder who played the bass in Bowie's backing band during his Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane phase died of pancreatic cancer on 21 May aged 62.
As far as I know, Bolder made two appearances with Bowie in the TOTP studio (Starman in July 1972 & The Jean Genie in January 1973) and a third with Uriah Heep in April 1977 which was included in the BBC Four repeats last year. He also featured in the official Jean Genie promotional video which aired on TOTP in December 1972.
Lead guitarist Mick Ronson died from liver cancer in 1993 aged 46, which means drummer Mick Woodmansey is now the only surviving 'Spider from Mars' - he was interviewed during the recent Bowie documentary on BBC 2 and I was struck by his resemblance nowadays (in looks and speech) to the Bullseye quizmaster Jim Bowen.
Before I discovered the 'Popscene' website three years ago I thought I had seen the first TOTP transmission of Starman aged ten on the Noel Edmonds hosted edition of 20-07-72 (I distinctly recall Tidybeard saying "David Bowie has always had an interest in the sky" as he introduced it) but it was actually a repeat clip from the 06-07-72 show presented by Tony Blackburn which I must have missed:
Pretty pathetic job in my opinion. Very childishly written and naive. Ironic that Sir Jimmy introduced Smokie singing "Oh Carol", must have been his favourite song!
no downloads no music no BOOM thank god i wasnt born back then or it would of been rubbish
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Obviously someone who doesn't know what real music is. :rolleyes: Ever heard of Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, AC/DC, Plastic Bertrand?...OK forget that last one.
Why don't you go back to the forum that likes to talk about bland dance r n b songs that all sound the same ay?
Pretty pathetic job in my opinion. Very childishly written and naive. Ironic that Sir Jimmy introduced Smokie singing "Oh Carol", must have been his favourite song!
Have to disagree. (Obviously a theme this week ... )
And anyone who can create a post of Sweet's TOTP appearances with intelligent commentary gets a big thumbs up from me. Especially for posting that rare clip of 'Ballroom Blitz' ... :cool:
At least we were taught how to use punctuation and capitals....
Do you think her dad made her watch it?
Poor thing, she's only 16 and likely reckons Little Mix & Olly Murs (sorry for swearing on the thread) are the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel.
What a shame we can't place a firewall around this TOTP 1978 thread against such deluded and inarticulate posts!
Off to a music re-education camp for the Egg girl.
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Couldn't see the ballpoint.....
I appreciate this "news" is three weeks old but I only discovered by chance last night that Trevor Bolder who played the bass in Bowie's backing band during his Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane phase died of pancreatic cancer on 21 May aged 62.
As far as I know, Bolder made two appearances with Bowie in the TOTP studio (Starman in July 1972 & The Jean Genie in January 1973) and a third with Uriah Heep in April 1977 which was included in the BBC Four repeats last year. He also featured in the official Jean Genie promotional video which aired on TOTP in December 1972.
Lead guitarist Mick Ronson died from liver cancer in 1993 aged 46, which means drummer Mick Woodmansey is now the only surviving 'Spider from Mars' - he was interviewed during the recent Bowie documentary on BBC 2 and I was struck by his resemblance nowadays (in looks and speech) to the Bullseye quizmaster Jim Bowen.
Before I discovered the 'Popscene' website three years ago I thought I had seen the first TOTP transmission of Starman aged ten on the Noel Edmonds hosted edition of 20-07-72 (I distinctly recall Tidybeard saying "David Bowie has always had an interest in the sky" as he introduced it) but it was actually a repeat clip from the 06-07-72 show presented by Tony Blackburn which I must have missed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muMcWMKPEWQ
Thanks for posting this.
no downloads no music no BOOM thank god i wasnt born back then or it would of been rubbish
:sleep:
Pretty pathetic job in my opinion. Very childishly written and naive. Ironic that Sir Jimmy introduced Smokie singing "Oh Carol", must have been his favourite song!
At least we were taught how to use punctuation and capitals....
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:eek:
Obviously someone who doesn't know what real music is. :rolleyes: Ever heard of Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, AC/DC, Plastic Bertrand?...OK forget that last one.
Why don't you go back to the forum that likes to talk about bland dance r n b songs that all sound the same ay?
Evening all
Well, you obviously don't ...
Have to disagree. (Obviously a theme this week ...
And anyone who can create a post of Sweet's TOTP appearances with intelligent commentary gets a big thumbs up from me. Especially for posting that rare clip of 'Ballroom Blitz' ... :cool:
Do you think her dad made her watch it?
Poor thing, she's only 16 and likely reckons Little Mix & Olly Murs (sorry for swearing on the thread) are the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel.
What a shame we can't place a firewall around this TOTP 1978 thread against such deluded and inarticulate posts!
Off to a music re-education camp for the Egg girl.
I'm not - it's a bit of a naff one tonight! :mad: - JS's episode was much better!
Blatantly gay.
No TOTP next week
Obviously gay.
Ozzy to start!
Why does TOTP always have to make room????:mad:
Goldie to start - I was never keen on this one.
Black Sabbath - quite topical as they are on course for a number 1 album on Sunday. Not that good a song.