I haven’t seen last night’s BBC4 docco on mid-70s British popsters the Real Thing yet, but there can’t be many songs that celebrate them. Here’s one, from Vincent Harkin’s One More Great Adventure, in a gig I put on *just* before the apocalypse, on March 13th. The song is ‘Heatwave’, a memoir of the summer of ’76, and it starts around 14:40…
“And the Real Thing played…”
Enjoyed the doc a lot more than I thought I would.
The doc is excellent and well worth a watch.
Yes, I enjoyed the doc too (watched it today). I assume there must have been a budget issue that meant they couldn’t show song clips of any length – a shame, but otherwise very well made.
Indeed. I can’t believe the rights holders couldn’t strike a decent deal with the film-makers to use the music – I daresay a lot of people might have watched that and streamed or bought the best-of CD if they’d been able to hear more of the music that was being talked about. I really wanted to hear The Chants music from Cavern days as well. Good film though, quite a story, it’s got everything!