Re: (TV) TV on TV UK

["Jeremy Smith" <jeremy_ni_smith@hotmail.com>]

Mock Rock - That wasn't Roxy Music, that was Bob Harris describing the New
York Dolls

Jeremy

----- Original Message -----
From: Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 6:51 PM
Subject: (TV) TV on TV UK


> In message <Springmail.105.972671121.0.94945400@www.springmail.com>,
> serovner@mindspring.com writes
> >I have a clip from TOGWT, but it's Foxhole and it's 1978.  I don't think
TV went
> >to the UK until 1977, with Blondie as the opening act.
> >
> Yeah, I'm, misleading you here - the band weren't actually _on_ the
> programme,  Elevation was played over some terrible animated groovy
> cartoon thing, which us what TOGWT used to do when a) they couldn't get
> the band near the BBC or b)no-one but the producer or tea boy or whoever
> had actually heard of them. Or they were American and thus -  to TOGWT -
> either sacred or mad.
>
> This was also the first place I heard/saw Roxy Music and, boy, did they
> get a slagging (Being neither American nor laid back.) If I remember
> rightly they were described, sneeringly, as "Mock Rock".
>
> K.
>
>
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