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Part 2. https://youtu.be/ydZMFe6JIdc
Kim Wilde is absolutely a stunner! That voice of hers too. I’m smitten all over again. ❤️
Mike Smith was a great host.
Read. I don’t know where I got smith from?
I met Mike Manchester once. I was hawking a demo tape. He had just come back from a tennis match. I implored him to listen to the demo tape while he took his bath. Never heard anything back.
I say, that drumming fellow’s a cheeky wee scamp!
Mike Read is a bit of a twonk.
But … he’s that rare form of DJ who actually loved and owned music. He was a co-author of Guiness Book of Singles and was initially set on Radio 1 with Kid Jensen. He gave sessions to a number of bands.
But then the Breakfast Show happened and it all went Smashie and Nicey
Yep, I liked Mike Read. Big Icicle Works fan of course…😬
I did all right – maybe 70% pass rate, but this is very much my pop era. I like Mike Read’s shirt. Pleased to get 1973 as those clips are among my earliest pop memories and the early 70s are a bit of a blur. Everything became clearer after 1974.
In the lyric rounds I think they do their research on the pop star in question. The Morrissey questions were right up his street.
That moment when you realise you’re too old for a 1984 pop quiz. Alvin Stardust is 5 years older than me mind…
Re: Mikethep
I hate to break it to you like this but Alvin stopped being older than you a number of years back…
Why wasn’t I told? How about Shane Fenton? Is he still with us?
Take a picture of this. https://youtu.be/wRp6Mfb7P-s
Having suffered third degree burns caused by a gravy spillage when ex-wife Liza Gibbons’ Hostess Trolley Tray topped over on top of him, Shane too has, alas, coo-coo-cah-chooed his way to the Choir Celestial.
He was a moody guy.
He was crap after Denny Laine left.
Goddard.
Did you? at your age?
This one popped up recently – what a team – Colin Moulding, Phil Collins and Robert Plant……..
Nick Heyward, answering questions on XTC, on Mickey Dolenz’s team vs Cliff’s team…. Perfect….
I remember Nick saying in interviews that he was a huge Monkees fan growing up, so doing the show with Micky Dolenz would have been a thrill.
I always wanted “my” artists (a difficult to define genre but those of the slightly left field/alternative persuasion) to wipe the floor with the others on Pop Quiz, and show the rest of the pop world that we were, I dunno, the true keepers of the pop flame or something, but it didn’t often happen.
Admittedly I may well be on my own with this one…
No no no you’re not alone!
The Guest List on Pop Quiz was always slightly to the left of the mainstream – bods like Dave Edmunds, Bev Bevan, Alvin Stardust, Billy Bremner, Glenn Tilbrook, Jake Burns making fairly regular appearances. Huey Lewis (pre Back To The Future inspired stardom) made an appearance once (to the bemusement of the viewing audience no doubt).
Not necessarily the big names or the public faces of a big band (John Deacon chosen over Freddie or Brian for example), but probably made for a better show as there was no expectation, no hissy fits, and probably a well oiled Green Room
And this at a time when Duran, Spandau, Culture Club, Wham etc selling shed loads.
Would the BBC, and /or record company pluggers, allow a prome time Pop show to happen without “the latest thing” making an appearance.
In the days of only 4 channels and very little outlet for pop music, something like Pop Quiz attracted an audience of several million. Well worth getting on the panel if you’ve got a record to flog.
Billy Bremner… his team won after he stamped on Jean Jacques Burnel’s foot while Mike Read wasn’t looking.
Possibly generous with the word “chosen” there, Rigid.
I mean, It’s possible the conversation would have gone “Hi, this is Pop Quiz, is John Deacon available?”.
Alternatively, it might be more like:
“Sorry mate, Debbie’s bleaching her hair that night, but Clem Burke’s not busy..”
Probably not now and that would be a shame wouldn’t it. I loved the fact that there would be guests on from popular bands that wasn’t the front person. I think that was down to Mike Smith/Read. Btw. Is he still alive?
Smith no, Read yes
Phil Lynott looks wasted. I just did the first round, recognised all 6 but would only have got 10 points out of 12 as I was a bit slow with the Queen track.
Everyone who appeared on British TV before about 1990 was completely wankered. How do you think they got all those people in the cage on Tiswas?
But they didn’t die a year or so later (most of them anyway)
They lived for showbusiness, they died for showbusiness.
Read was a fan of XTC, I think. Hurrah! I vaguely remember him playing his guitar in his show, and one of the XTC biogs says he had a go at – and failed – ‘Love on a Farmboy’s Wages’.
He was on Pointless Celebrities last weekend, and got through to the final where one of the categories was…Pop music. Reader, he won.
Who, Morrissey?