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On another blog someone is posting about music videos from one UK TV show Top of the Pops. This got me thinking, and as I was growing up in the UK in the 70s, there were only two shows – Top of the Pops ( TOTP) and the Old Grey Whistle Test (OGWT). The OGWT dealt with older classic bands, and was wasted on me as a young kid. Now of course I love to watch old clips of bands before one of them died or they split up or whatever, but back then TOTP had the current hits and was much more interesting. Then in 1982 came The Tube on  Channel 4 -  a new live music show on a new channel, and after that I became a bit blasé about live music, especially as I was playing it myself and seeing other local bands by that point. But I still remember the moment that just blew me away. This was at about 0,28″ of this..when the guitars kick in.  We had heard of them sure – they were all over the papers, getting banned everywhere, and we had even heard the first singles, but this was the first time we had actually seen them, and I can’t describe just how thrilling that was to a 10 year old boy!