"Mind You, I Had A Late Tea"

Well, it took just under a year from when I rambled on about Top Of The Pops, but today, the BBC finally switched off its life support, axing the show after 42 years of faithful service. And it still strikes me as unnecessary. Even worse, it leaves the BBC with Later… as its only regular music show. shudder.

Let's hope that the final show has a compilation of John Peel's withering comments during the chart rundowns, and a shot of the pair that were simply too ugly to ever appear on TV again before the watershed (at this point, I would also like to plead for someone to YouTube the 'Topless Lard' bit from their football series. I…I have my reasons).

And ten, fifteen years into the future, maybe it'll get its own RTD to bring it back…

currently playing: Denim – Back In Denim