Pop Goes The Sixties

[Karl]

Pop Goes The Sixties aired as part of a Sixties week on a cable channel called Yesterdays. It's a travesty, I don't know what I was expecting but it wasn't this.

To be fair it's a joint ZDF/ BBC production from what appears to be late 69, early 70? Saville is the BBC presenter. The Who do I Can See For Miles. Great song but Roger had his awful fringed jacket, Pete the (too short in the leg) bib and brace, Entwhistle looked, well, rubbish  and Moon was Moon.

Kinks do Days, Sandie Shaw does a couple in an outfit that presumably Jeff Banks knocked together. One of the songs is Puppet, in German. The Goddess does her best but it's clearly a lost cause.

 Other than that, Hollies in suits looking like they've flown in from Batley variety club. Shadows doing their dreadful dance, way too much Cliff, too much Adam Faith and Helen Shapiro with an amazing yellow tongue. That girl must have been puffing Capstans like they were going out of fashion.

On the plus side, that week did see a great programme on Carnaby Street with bits from all the movers and shakers, and a halfway decent piece on the Wags of '66 with a pearler shot of England and Germany taking the pitch for the final, shot from the tunnel as they filed out. Iconic.