It’s the final cut (out).
Farewell to the man behind CAPTAIN PUGWASH, SIR PRANCELOT, MARY MUNGO AND MIDGE and ARK STORIES (lest we forget, once voted one of TVC’s Top Ten Most Mediocre Programmes).
Visually endearing animations with not much story to them at half mast.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLYB0rcDw5g
The People’s SongsI Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor tonight, which allows us to mention that when it got to number one, Calendar showed a clip from its Whistle Test-inspired video and captioned it “amateur video”. In fact that video was the first we’d heard of them or it, when it was shown on Popworld in fact, and we never thought the record version was quite as good because it was a bit overproduced. Anyway, it’s included here because it started bands being broken via the internet and that rather than the major labels and Top of the Pops.
Richard Baker’s narration for the introduction of “Mary, Mungo and Midge”, along with the accompanying music, is a total Proustian rush for me. I’m instantly three years old again, on my mother’s knee.