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#1. Noel Edmonds almost apologising for a lovely bit of sheer joy in beige polyester. The Simon Park Orchstra with Eye Level

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#2. Legs & Co, in front of a b&w stills montage depicting the life and times of David Lloyd George whilst simultaneously inventing the costumes for The Handmaid’s Tale.

circa 1981, Ennio Morricone’s “Chi Mai”

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When Mr Saville sexually abused a female young person live on TV, in front of whole country, and nobody did a thing about it

#3 That time John Peel played Mandolin next to sexy drag act Rod Stewart.

A youthful boy George looking for fame dancing as an audience member

Everyone keeps banging on about the iconic moment when Bowie draped his arm round Mick Ronson, but the real jaw dropper for me, as a 13 year old was the first appearance of Sparks. Guys wearing lurex and eyeliner -yeah, so what? Turning up dressed as a bank clerk with a Hitler tache' really was radical. it also helped that they were a truly great band.

Dexy's Midnight Runners playing Jackie Wilson Said. With a picture of Jocky Wilson in the background

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just watched an episode of Van der Walk on TalkingPictures for old times sake

Rick Parfitt coked off his tits falling into the drums on margarita time

didn't one of Milli Vanilli get a chubb on that could have your eye out,  whilst miming and wearing cycling shorts?

Tom Hingley looking a combination of regretful and worried about whether it'll work out OK, regarding having Mark E Smith perform with them. And Mayo's insulting sneer at the end. 

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Not sure, but Imagination's drummer gets up towards the end of Body Talk in 1981, and he  clearly dressed to the right.

were they the ones who did "Beat the Clock"?

Tony Blackburn flinching when a well ( or badly) aimed drumstick from Keith Moon narrowly missed his head.

When the flute gets lost in the mix

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The Silver Machine was apparently his bicycle.....must have been a great bike ride.

the Stranglers playing the wrong instruments during No more Heroes 

Just had to get the stranglers in there eh Gary? 😁

Hope you are doing okay 

Wow. I hadn't heard that before - haunting.

And the presentation - extraordinary. In a good way. 

But I see your point!

Whatever happened to Lemmy after he left Hawkwind?

He went into chartered surveying, I believe.

That's a shame. I thought he had great potential. Maybe the lifestyle got a bit much for him. 

The very same, as well as a whole load of fantastic songs.

You've posted this before. Being a fan of The Fall I've seen this clip lots, and I just watched it again. Still a top tune but I'm still not seeing this look from Hingley. You're right about Mayo though. 

I think you're getting your sexual abuser radio 1 dj's confused. I'm sure that was Dave Lee Travis. 

Dexy's Midnight Runners & Jockie Wilson-  youtube.com/watch?v=5Ao9p3ou7-U&

I have. Is that a problem? 

No, he's right, it was Savile:

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Nirvana's live vocal and unconvincing miming:

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Rod Stewart and The Faces did this for Maggie May

There was also Ronnie Wood with his bog seat guitar complete with toilet roll on either Stay With Me or Cindy Incidentally

Kurt changes the opening lyrics to "Load up on drugs and kill you friends" which I imagine probably went down with the producer slightly better than the time they didn't play the expected song on the Jonathan Ross Show.

Iconic.

When you just don't even care about miming -  youtube.com/watch?v=1F4q6s9-wvg&

This wins so far. It's pretty special. As in "special needs" They almost look like they are mentally incompetent and believe that they are making the music! I see that it is a Christmas TOTP though - was this a bit of a "thing" on the Christmas TOTP specials, to just have a lark? Or is Eddi trying to be more punk than Bananarama who iirc, at least once, literally didn't bother to move their mouths during performance to playback on TOTP?

King Crimson doing Catfood with Keith Jarrett. (I can't find a good clip of this, possibly because it was introduced by that well-known sexual abuser.) 

Wasn't DLT found innocent?

The worst lip-sync ever, according to Sigue Sigue Sputnic...

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Edit: 1m 10s

No. 

Not of everything he was charged with. He has a conviction for indecent assault.

Thanks, yes. I did the bleedin' obvious and checked the details out on Wikipedia. Perhaps not in the same ballpark as Savile and Glitter but still not great.

Can't believe no-one's mentioned this gem

The Clash always refused to appear on TotP, so this is presumably TotP getting their own back

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I remembered because the person he was convicted of assaulting is reasonably well known, although a lowly researcher at the time. I won’t name her, because whilst it was  widely reported at the time, it appears to have been left out of subsequent coverage.

The start of this including some fine candleabra playing  youtube.com/watch?v=ex4X03xZsRk&

Fantastic, this is the sort of content the thread really wants 🤣

Fun Boy 3 and Bananarama with a masterclass in lip syncing and pointless mike technique youtube.com/watch?v=vfbR__bcuKY&

Just as good is the opening where 'Serious Hard Rock DJ' Tommy Vance (RIP, you deserved better) introduces the song surrounded by cavorting pretty young things. I miss the eighties, the high water mark for taste and style!

I was curious about that, found this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2012/mar/27/jocky-wi...