Walking down the street in Dublin yesterday I saw a man in an Old Grey Whistle Test T-shirt. I was thinking about the words, Old and Grey and how they didn’t scare off the youth in the time when that programme was the one that all discerning young viewers and listeners watched. Age wasn’t the […]
A 1972 session for the Old Grey Whistle Test by David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder and Woody Woodmansey. It wasn’t broadcast till 1982, probably due to a time issue, Queen Bitch and Five Years being two songs that were broadcast. Oh! You Pretty Things is a song from the pre Ziggy album Hunky Dory released in 1971. Although Bowie […]
The Pretty Things in the seventies, a contemporary Glam, post sixties, pre Punk, Rolling Stones meet Aerosmith Rock ‘n’ Roll with rings, long hair and featuring the man once known as having the longest hair ever, Phil may on vocals. A brother act in controversy with the Stones with their youthful sixties antics and featuring early Stones […]
After the Radio Gnome trilogy, Daevid Allen left Gong in 1975 and Steve Hillage took over as the band’s leader. Shamal was recorded later that year, it was produced by Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason and came out in early 1976, but Hillage uncomfortable with his new position left before the album was released. With Allen gone, Gong were […]
David Bowie and The Spiders play Five Years on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1972, in a clip that I have never seen before till today. This is an extension of the last post about Suede, as Bowie became such an obsession as an individual for so many people – and of course he was a […]
Mick Ronson on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975 performing Angel #9 from his Play Don’t Worry Album. Magic fingers, eternal sustain, tone all of his own and sadly not with us anymore. He died of liver cancer in 1993 at the age of 46. One of the world’s great rock guitarists, he just touched […]