Sounds of the Seventies
22.00, BBC2
Last week, in a view no doubt shared by his doctor at the time, we could have done with a bit less Meatloaf, but the rest of it was great fun, no matter how many times we’d seen the clips before, especially Alvin Stardust’s hilariously unfashionable backing band and the special effects which saw him perched on a cymbal. In addition we think the excitement of the Mott The Hoople performance is intensified by the incredibly haphazard camerawork which offered up such visual feasts as a mike stand and the back of the set, and it surely takes some skill to cut to the guitarist at more or less every time he’s just stopped playing. Back to Mondays this week, and we’ve had quite a lot of punk on telly in recent weeks, but it’s always exciting and here’s some more, including the perennially entertaining Rezillos.
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