httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3neF05kUUak&hl=en&fs=1]
More BBC flummery from those regal nuptials of 1981, with trailers, a glimpse of Angela Rippon compering the breakfast show in the company of a trimphone, and a horde of foreign broadcasters crammed into BBC commentary cubicles.
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.
Points of View