A MISSING Top of the Pops performance featuring The Hollies in their heyday has come to light on Youtube.
Standing in front of a distinctly groovy Sixties stage, the Manchester band perform “Bus Stop”, a hit single from the summer of 1966.
The black and white film clip is generally in good condition and runs to 2″58′. [...]
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February 8, 2010
Get on the Bus for Missing Top of the Pops
November 21, 2009
Sweet Dream For Tull Fans
FANS of classic rock band Jethro Tull are briefly living in the past thanks to the emergence on the Internet of a clip from a missing edition of Top of the Pops.
A 32-second excerpt from the group’s November ‘69 performance of ‘Sweet Dream’ has been uploaded to YouTube, seemingly originating from an unidentified German documentary.
The [...]
October 23, 2009
YouTube Clip Is A Real Sweet Find
A LOST Top of the Pops clip featuring glam rockers The Sweet has surfaced on video sharing website YouTube.
The band’s first of two Top of the Pops performances of hit single ‘Action’, which reached #15 in the UK charts, comes from the 10th July, 1975 edition – which is officially missing from the BBC archives.
It [...]
September 20, 2009
The Beat Goes On: Look! Hear! Discoveries
THREE episodes from early Eighties regional music show Look! Hear! have been returned to the BBC archives.
Look! Hear! was a teen-orientated music show that screened on BBC Midlands between 1977 -81. Along with reports on what was hot in the worlds of entertainment and fashion, Look! Hear! featured a number of influential bands.
The three [...]
July 27, 2009
Wiped Helps With Recovery Of Missing Material
THIS website has proven instrumental in helping previously missing TV material find its way back to the archives for all to enjoy.
Back in April, Wiped ran a feature – John Williams On Finding Flashez – looking at the recovery of footage from influential Australian music show Flashez, which ran from 1976-7 on ABC (Australian Broadcasting [...]
July 26, 2009
New Insights Into Life Of Composer Thanks To Film Discovery
NEW insights into the life of one of Britain’s greatest composers have come to light with the discovery of reels of film intended for a documentary that was never finished.
The colour film reels, dating back to the 1970s, contain unique interviews with family, friends and acquaintances of composer Gustav Holst (1874 – 1934), best-known for [...]
April 23, 2009
Missing Top Gear Session Freed From Oblivion
Fans of ’60s English blues rock band Free might have been saddened to learn one of their sessions for a seminal music show was missing from the archives, but it’s all right now thanks to the work of one radio enthusiast.
Rare music collector Andrew Smith has discovered an off-air recording of Free, regarded as one [...]
April 4, 2009
Tyrannosaurus Rex: Missing Top Gear Session Discovered
A previously missing 1960s BBC session by psychedelic rock/folk band Tyrannosaurus Rex has been discovered.
The session by the group – which would evolve in to legendary glam act T-Rex in the 1970s – was broadcast on March 23rd, 1968 as part of the BBC Radio 1’s influential “progressive” music programme Top Gear, but wiped soon [...]
April 1, 2009
Unearthed Tapes Reveal Flashez Of Brilliance
Several complete episodes of fondly-remembered Australian pop show Flashez have been discovered.
The weekday youth magazine-style show, which ran from 1976-7 on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), featured home-grown talent from across the worlds of music, TV and sports, such as bands Midnight Oil and The Saints, and champion surfer Mark Warren.
Film reports and music clips featuring [...]
