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Foo Fighters - The Pretender / God Save The Queen, Live in 2007

Here’s a great clip of the Foo Fighters at MTV’s European Music Awards ceremony in Muich from 2007.
A great live performance showing their love of the Sex Pistols, and in the process sohwing, for me, why they are better than Nirvana.

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Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding, The Old Grey Whistle Test,1982
This live performance on the BBC music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1982 is truly awesome. It was such an odd site to see a person in a wheelchair performing on a music show; and his voice was so fragile and sincere.  I fell in [...]

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Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper, promotional video, 1981
In 1981, before The Spice Girls and their limp squeal for ‘girl power’, there was Grace Jones.
Grace Jones had more ‘girl power’ than any other female performer, and was 110% more scary than Scary Spice - that’s the real one, not the Bo Selecta version.  [...]

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Barnes & Barnes - Fish Heads

Fish heads, fish heads
Roly-poly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads
Eat them up, yum!

Does anybody else remember this weird novelty record from American space cadets Barnes & Barnes and their surreal video and song Fish Heads?
I remember seeing this promo video on The Old Grey Whistle Test.  Imagine how odd it sounded [...]

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Public Image Ltd (PiL) - Careering & Poptones, The Old Grey Whstle Test
Here is one of the most powerful performances both Annie Nightingale and I ever saw on The Old Grey Whsitle.  Public Image Limited, PiL at their very very best performing Careering & Poptones in 1980.
Johnny Rotten was still known as John Lydon and [...]

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