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[rabbit57i]

Madonna writhing around on the floor in a wedding dress while singing "Like A Virgin" on the first MTV Video Music Awards. I rolled my eyes in disgust, but I knew it was an iconic moment.

[melzilla]

It's the show piece event of the British music industry. It's live on telly.  The audience are welcomed to the Brit awards by the voice of a Radio 1 DJ.  He introduces a radio friendly, chart topping band, the show opens, and you witness this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIPyar98Tpg

Classical conductor Sir George Solti, who was in the front row, walked out in protest when the machine gun came out, despite being up for an award.

KLF then went on to win Best British Act that evening (tied with Simply Red) but didn't pick up the award...after the opening number they announced they had split and then went and dumped a dead sheep in front of the BPI offices!

Brilliant!

[Sostie]

Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniel on Top Of The Pops in 1982. Some great old skool body popping and (probably) the first televised "moon walk".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ImkBve8OW8

I remember when it was first on TV - all the kids at school were going on about the "funny backward thing he did on TV last night"

Not long after this transmission, Michael Jackson flew Daniel over to the USA to teach him the move.

[thirtyhelens]

He introduces a radio friendly, chart topping band, the show opens, and you witness this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIPyar98Tpg

Is this the one you told me about while we were standing outside Bar Nine?! I know, too much drink by that point...

[Sostie]

Is this the one you told me about while we were standing outside Bar Nine?!  I know, too much drink by that point...

Maybe. I know I tried to relay the details of their gig at Wembley that got turned down (it involved real elephants & Zulu warriors). Or maybe it was the ABBA/dead reindeer story!

[thirtyhelens]

It WAS the ABBA/dead reindeer story. Priceless.

This is pretty good too, though. And now I want to watch "Justified & Ancient"....Tammy makes me all misty in that one...

[logger]

I kissed the singer from Cecil (remember them). That'll teach him to come in the audience and get in my face. I reciprocate!

Funniest post EVA!

Hopefully this will resurrect the Jackson thread. I loved that.

[rebelstar]

He also knocked over a child while he was up there and lifted his shirt in the face of another. That's entirely unacceptable and anybody who condones this behaviour should be ashamed of themselves.

Is dangling a baby out of a window OK?



On topic - seeing the Pixies on Snub TV for the first time is something that will stay with me forever.

[Sostie]

I kissed the singer from Cecil (remember them).

I kissed Wendy James from Transvision Vamp...remember them?

On topic - seeing the Pixies on Snub TV for the first time is something that will stay with me forever.

Have a few Pixies ones (mainly their actual gigs), but chatting to Kim Deal at the bar in Brixton Academy was pretty cool.

My Beastie Boys moment (which I seem to mention every six months or so )

[Stella MM]

Is dangling a baby out of a window OK?

Chuh. He was just showing the blanket-covered, allegedly-not-his-own baby to the hundreds of mentals slavering below. If that's not an out-pouring of compassion from the King of Pop, then I don't know what is.

We live in a dark and cynical age. *shakes head sadly*

[Ghost_862]

Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniel on Top Of The Pops in 1982.  Some great old skool body popping and (probably) the first televised "moon walk".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ImkBve8OW8

I remember when it was first on TV - all the kids at school were going on about the "funny backward thing he did on TV last night"

Not long after this transmission, Michael Jackson flew Daniel over to the USA to teach him the move.

The first televised moonwalk was actually a black tap dancer called Bill Bailey and it aired in the 1950s. The clip is on youtube.

Further to this, there is no proof that Jeffrey Daniels taught Jackson to moonwalk, only that he co-choreographed three of his music videos. The only person saying Daniels taught Jackson to moonwalk is Daniels. Jackson said on Oprah that some black kids taught it to him. There are a wealth of people out there who claim to have taught the move to Jackson. Daniels has his disciples like they all do but there is no concrete version as to who taught him what.

Daniels is a great mover, though. And he's still dancing today. There are recent clips on youtube.

[zeden]

I vividly remember seeing the Jacko video for Black or White when it first aired on TOTP and being thoroughly confused by the car smashing and panther transformation at the end of it. I'm not sure it stuck with me for any other reason.
In fact, I remember seeing the B-52s video for the Flintstones movie just as vividly so it means nothing really.
I remember hearing the line "there's a hole in the sky for the angels to piss" whilst watching a rock band on TOTP as a small kid and finding it very funny indeed that they got away with swearing at 7:30 in the evening. Years later I picked up the Iron Maiden greatest hits album and what do you know, there's the song. Man on the Edge was what I had loved as a child and it turned out I like it as an adult, though not so much because of the swearing now.
I heard another song with the line "it's a race, a race for rats" in a song on the radio when I was about 14 and never found out what it was at the time. It plagued me for ages because I really liked it. Once again, years later I get hold of the Placebo back catalogue and what do you know, there it is. Slave to the Wage, now one of my favorite songs for fairly obvious reasons.

[Stella MM]

I heard another song with the line "it's a race, a race for rats" in a song on the radio when I was about 14 and never found out what it was at the time. It plagued me for ages because I really liked it. Once again, years later I get hold of the Placebo back catalogue and what do you know, there it is. Slave to the Wage, now one of my favorite songs for fairly obvious reasons.

Fuck, I feel old.

[zeden]

I might have been as old as 16 if that makes it any better.

[rabbit57i]

Seeing Wendy O. Williams & the Plasmatics in this tiny club. She chainsaws a guitar & throws it into the audience. I manage to hit it enough that my brother gets it, but it cut me something wicked. I had a nasty injury after that. I think of it every time I see the guitar hanging on the wall at my brother's place.