OUR FIRST SIGHTING in this A-Z of the sainted STILGOE. Here the man had a full half hour to fill, week after week, with, yup, the topical comedy song. Unfairly maligned still, Rich was always at his best behind a piano rather than exhorting kids to do things “with scissors and glue”, and here we got what we wanted: unadorned tunesmithery of a cheery, things-aren’t-all-that-bad-despite-it-being-the-winter-of-discontent bent.
And Now The Good News
1978 on BBC2
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Wednesday, 22.00, BBC Radio 2I 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.
Stilgoe should have a weekly slot on The One Show. I would like to hear him sing a song about the recession.