User blog:MemberD/1600 pages

Again, achieving this number of pages passed me by so I didn't get to dedicate it to any particular subject, in fact I think it was the every unassuming 20 February 1975 with its video and picture-less Top of the Pops listing! This was one of the many shows that were 'wiped' from the BBC archives sometime after the mid-70s presumably becuase someone thought they weren't worth keeping. Happily that wasn't the case in successive years so we now have the many BBC Four TOTP re-runs, currently up to 1985 with 1981-82 re-re-running.

But going back that '75 TOTP it was interesting to see Slade's How Does It Feel opening the show although I'm wondering whether that was played over the opening chart rundown or if they were in the studio. The song is rather an unusual one in the Slade canon and written for their movie Slade in Flame, one of the first 'grown-up' movies I remember seeing in what must have been ca. 76/77. Aforementioned movie is definitely a milestone in British pop culture and must come back to it sometime.

Speaking of groups in movies it was a big 40th anniversary day for ABBA last week as on 16 February 1978, having only just arrived in the UK, the group appeared on Blue Peter  before being whisked off to central London for the premiere of ABBA: The Movie. Another milestone pop culture feature which needs attention. ABBA page also badly needed but..where do you start?

In other news I've also established the Groups Infobox template which can now accomodate all the main info about a given musical group so should make cataloguing easier. Another one is urgently required for TV programmes. Watch this space.

MemberD (talk) 12:37, February 20, 2018 (UTC)