Like many people, I have been wathcing those old 1976 TOTP episodes on BBC Four with some interest. I must have watched TOTP every week, or nearly every week for the couple of years around 1976 so I’m amazed to find quite so many performances I had entirely forgotten, sometimes by artists I had completely forgotten about to the extent that that I would now say that I have never heard of them – though I’m sure I would have known the names in 1976. Sheer Elegance is a good example of that.
I have decided that, like it or not, Save All Your Kisses For Me is a brilliant song and I can see why it won Eurovision – an extremely catchy song.
Even through all the musical nostalgia I found the sho to be a televisual equivalent of the palace at Versailles. Just as the mere sight of the palace explains a lot about how and why the French revolution came about, a few minutes watching a 1976 TOTP explains a lot about why punk just had to happen.
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