In 1975 I was working at Granada studios in Manchester for a few days, fixing the air conditioning. I was a 16 year-old Marc fan. I was going out to the van to pick some component or another up. I was walking down a corridor and Marc walked right past me, just 3 feet or so away. He was actually wearing that leapard skin when he walked past me. I couldn't believe it; for days after I was dumbfounded that I'd walked so close to one of my all-time idols and not said something, if only Thanks Marc. A couple of hours later he was recording this. I didn't see Bowie though. But Marc was unbelievable. Now I'm 60, recording and producing my own albums and that magic moment is sometimes there there when I go for a take. It was a magical experience for me. Thanks Marc.
RIP JIMMY MCcULOCH...HE WAS CONSIDERED A PRODOGY GUTARIST WITH WINGS AND WHEN HE WAS ONLY 16 YRS OF AGE HE WAS WITH THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER JACK WHO WAS ON THE DRUMMS
What a unique voice he had! Distinctive! That is the most important trait in Rock! To Not sound like anyone else! And he didn’t! Bowie too! All the great ones don’t sound like anyone else! 😎👏🏻🎸
First Marc sings Ride a White Swan and then Bowie comes out and sings Heroes? British TV was pretty damn good back then! RIP Bolan and Bowie I wonder if they are together again? That would be great! I get a melancholy feeling knowing that they are both gone now. I guess no one gets out alive. It’s just very sad that life has to end at some point and the good times are over then. Especially when music is such a celebration of life and generally makes you feel good and alive!
This is the first time I realized just how much Marc Bolan was inspired by Buddy Holly. And the sound which is so distinctive on his song Heroes is the one which Bowie was trying to replicate with his band Tin Machine, and came pretty close.
Growing up during the 1960's and '70s in downtown Brooklyn USA I didn't hear or know much of Bolan and his music except for the couple of hits that made it from the other side of the pond. Less did I know about his show but in time via friends and my own musically curious ears I have come to love his music and realize he was both really talented,& special. I also love how casual/cool he was about it all. Long Live Marc Bolan!
Whoa, Bowie sticks out, doesn't he? I mean, he's game and that's lovely, but it's obviously clear that he's not "one of the lads" anymore. At all. He's on a different plane all together. Heck, just his look would have fit in any decade from 1977 to 2017, cool at any time, never mind the song, his stage presence, and his performance.
Just blend a couple of genre's together and you can get that at any time, I guess I don't make gods out of rock stars. It is much better, opened me up more to historical art for what that is truly worth. Rock has all this debris of early deaths, drugs, inability to form lasting marriages.
David totally does, though I didn´t enjoy this particular performance of Heroes, I would have love to see his full performance with Bolan, they looked great and clearly were having fun.
The Prince of Pout! Godfather of Glam! For all his faults, Marc was the transition from 60s to 70s, he blazed the trail of glam, cross-dressing etc. and opened the doors for Bowie, Gary Glitter, Sweet etc., up to Adam & The Antz, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and others in 80s then Smiths, Oasis as time goes on and many more.
My name is Hayley I been Marc Bolan seen 13 years ago I still love ❤️ watching Marc show and on all of them he look gorgeous 😍 in different suit 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😉😻😻😻😻😻😻😻
Idol was probably considered tame since Marc was in Johns Children . It is hard to believe seeing Marc was a glam innovator but he was also a wizard and was well suited to change like people of the misty mist do.
Steve Summers, guitarist for Lip Service: "I was guitarist in the band and at the point of doing the show, we’d been together a couple of years, although with different line-ups. At the time of the show, the band was Mick Hayes on bass, Brian Tan-Brown on vocals, Simon Conway on Drums and myself on guitar. Lasted about 5 years in total. Brian and I carried on writing and made some demos, but these didn’t amount to much. Unfortunately, I’ve lost touch with him now. He was a really great singe, and talented writer. Mick and I are still good friends, and he has never stopped playing, and eventually becoming lead singer with Raider, and latterly Randy and the Rockets. Norman lives in Hawaii and is still playing as far as I know. I’m currently fronting the Steve Summers Band, playing Blues-Rock and original material, doing local gigs. For the show, lots of ego trips going on, and as the only non-famous band on the show, I think we felt a bit overwhelmed. I did at least. Bowie was great, if a little aloof, Generation X - with Billy Idol - who were being touted as the next big thing - were very full of themselves, speaking to no-one. The Rods got very angry because of union restrictions - they weren’t actually allowed to perform and smashed up one of the changing rooms in protest. The reason they weren’t allowed to perform was because David and Marc wanted to have a jam - the one you see on the show - and the recording of the show was already running late. The Rods piece that was broadcast was actually filmed later in London and added to the show before transmission (the show was filmed in Manchester at the old Granada studios). There are reports that Bowie’s security cleared the studio before Marc & David could perform with Marc’s management getting rather irate over it. Tempers were certainly strained over the ‘jobsworth’ attitude of the unions, but certainly we were all there to witness the ‘historic’ jam. Possibly the last time Marc played live… most of the stuff on the show was mimed, apart from the Bowie/ Bolan jam and Generation X… not sure how they swung that. You can see on the jam that it ended prematurely after someone ‘pulled the plug’. Not the way rock-stars of their ilk are usually treated. Both guys were pretty pissed off in the bar later, although they took the time to talk to us. Marc was especially nice. At the time, you weren’t actually allowed to mime to your record and had to re-record it in the Granada studios. This was a real pain since we’d spent ages recording the single. I later found out that trick was to go into the studio and record it then at the last minute, switch the master to the one already recorded. I’m sure this is what Bowie did with Heroes since it sounds very much like the record, including Robert Fripp from King Krimson on guitar, and he was nowhere to be seen at the show. Bowie did sing it live though, and very good it was too! So the version we mime to on the show was the one we’d recorded in the previous 2 days in the Manchester studio. Still, I was quite happy with it. The show was great fun to record, I talked to Marc a lot. He liked my guitar (a Les Paul Black Beauty) and when I asked him about his original 1958 Les Paul that he was famous for, he told me he’d had it stolen, and had sent his roadie out to get 20 new ones and he’d pick the one that felt closest to his old one. The guitarist from Gen X played one of Marc’s guitars I think, since their gear was held up en-route. Marc was complimentary about the song and the guitar solo in it. I knew he lived in Barnes, which is very close to where I worked at the time in Mortlake, and he invited me round to jam with him and Brian May (of Queen) who also lived nearby. Very exciting, but of course it never happened after he tragically died shortly after the show was recorded. Marc treated us all very well. He was utterly charming, and it was a great pleasure to meet him. He was very natural, we just talked like a couple of guitarists about songs, song writing, guitars and so on. He was really chuffed to have David on the show since they were old mates from before either of them had ‘made it’. After the show, we all went to the bar. I did chat to Marc a bit and he was still livid that the plug had been pulled on his jam with Bowie. David was there too of course, and he and Marc went into a bit of a huddle then left fairly shortly after a quick drink with those who were there. Marc did thank us for doing the show, wished us luck and said he’d be in touch with me. I don’t recall the Rods or Generation X being in the bar, but they were all very stand off-ish anyway, very into their own thing. At that time Marc had been on a health kick and lost lots of weight. Some say he was looking too thin and gaunt. Others say he was still taking stuff. He was really on the ball I’d say, sharp and witty, so no sign of drugs or booze. Of course, he was quite small and rather thin anyway, and he certainly looked it that day. I remember his hair looked a bit rough - not the glorious cork-screw mane of old - but then again, maybe it had always been like that. He seemed high energy and full of beans to be honest, but if he’d been dieting, that would account for the hair looking a bit iffy. It was a great experience that I’ll never forget. I was absolutely gutted when I heard on the radio a few weeks later that he’d died. Couldn’t really believe it, especially since it looked like I might get a chance to hang out with him. A great loss to all fans, and to me at the time, it also felt a bit personal. All the memories come flooding back whenever I hear his stuff, but especially Deborah, since he performed that on the show we were on. The show itself is a fantastic memory and it was great to see it finally released on DVD a couple of years ago. I had an old VHS recording of the show that was hardly watchable anymore. A great record of a great period of my life.
Lip-service is new to me, I reckon the band had a great sound. 1977 I was already in Australia 5 years, T.Rex fan then and now, but I didn't realise how fabulous a talent Marc was until the 1990s. Only when the chips are downer than down, does the heart dictate which oil or liquid fuel it requires to swing into life again. Music is the balm. It is how I learned that Bolan, T.Rex are a cut above the rest.
ITV's Bolan-branded answer to Top of the Pops. Cute. Like most stuff around this time I cannot for the life of me recall whether I saw it originally. Though I was only a wee nipper of 7, my Mum loved music and Dad bless him, when he was out of prison was either playing an instrument, drunk or usually both though not necessarily at home doing it. Best of times, worst of times etc.
Ah... the classic episode with Billy Idol and Bowie. Marc fell from the stage at the end, much to his friend David's amusement. Glad they left that stumble in, but would have like to heard the duet they were about to sing as well
he didn't even get to see this air. that evil woman who murdered him took a bunch of money from Bowie and fled to the US with Rolan when they announced they were going to prosecute her for manslaughter. she was drunk and coked out. i don't know how she can live with herself.
Marc Bolan and TREX ruled ! As far as I'm concerned T-rex & Bryan Ferry were the only things I listened to in the 70's, the world is a poorer place for his loss.
Inspired Me as a Performer from early of times....Always thought I had found-out a little Secret from U.K. that many Americans My Age hadn't seen or heard Quite-Yet..hahaha!!!
Do you think by juxtaposing the exciting Punk and New wave acts with the crappy old MOR singers, Bolan was subversively making the case for the new bands and the end of the entertainment establishment?
*@40BigCD* Ofcourse...great session player ....which doesn't guarantee great band material... He's often seen behind Marc in dungarees or pyamas wiggling about....The proof is in the pudding of Marc's last recordings ....the same boring old boogie woogie twelve bar song structures ...
The bass player wrote Grandad for Clive Dunn, which kept Ride a White Swan off the number 1 position in Jan 1971. He also played bass on a multitude of famous songs, including Space Oddity by Bowie. Herbie Flowers is still around.
So interesting. Recently I’ve been reviewing any Marc Bolan footage to get a better sense of him and his place in music history/lore. I don’t give much thought to actors, but yesterday the thought actually popped into my head that Johnny Depp could play Marc in a biopic. I agree he doesn’t exactly look like him, but I think he could catch Marc’s ethereal-like way he carried himself. Maybe it’s also the jaw bone structure. IDK!
Great that they left that final "mishap" in at the end, could easily have edited it out! 2 Thumbs up, to them both. Saw this the first time round, great memories relived!
***** I assume that is because this episode was aired weeks after he had died, so those producing it were probably DELIBERATELY cutting it that way. Don't you think? He might have said the good bye in that recorded episode, but it wasn't aired, because everybody knew then he would not come back for another time.
Marc wanted to re-shoot that bit, but it was the end of the shooting day (the crew had a strong union, so when it was time to stop work, they STOPPED). The crew were unwilling to go into overtime to do any retakes, so the editor had no choice but to use whatever footage was shot.
Wow, David Bowie really is impressive after the river Styx of crap music on this show. It's a shame for us that they didn't make it through the final tune together (especially after watching Marc mime through 6 episodes of this show!) but it's awesome that they both laughed about it.
I could just about handle this tight up until the male dancers at 14.29. Then I burst out laughing. Those moves! In jump suits! The pressure on the stitching! Eddie and the Hot Rods were great. Idol and Bowie became massive stars. Would Bolan of? I don't think so.
End of the series, not long before he died. Apparently according to his biography it all kicked off backstage, bowies "people" throwing their weight around kicking crew out, insisting on closed set, bolan got pissed hence the fall at the end, no time to re record it.
In 1975 I was working at Granada studios in Manchester for a few days, fixing the air conditioning. I was a 16 year-old Marc fan. I was going out to the van to pick some component or another up. I was walking down a corridor and Marc walked right past me, just 3 feet or so away. He was actually wearing that leapard skin when he walked past me. I couldn't believe it; for days after I was dumbfounded that I'd walked so close to one of my all-time idols and not said something, if only Thanks Marc. A couple of hours later he was recording this. I didn't see Bowie though. But Marc was unbelievable. Now I'm 60, recording and producing my own albums and that magic moment is sometimes there there when I go for a take. It was a magical experience for me. Thanks Marc.
Yugen Lastname: Hm, but this was filmed in 1977.
I am writing about this period. Can you email me at brian in chester AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk please? Cheers!
Lovely story. X
Yugen what’s your last name???
Oh my goodness, what an awesome memory , it's great that you can recall it and still get that buzz of excitement. I think I'd have lost for words too.
Marc Bolan died 8 days later after this was filmed. Amazing Bowie was there for his final show bringing the friends together a last time.
Makes me cold thinking about it. Anyone can be here one minute, gone in 8 days time.
Wow! that is so sad and who was to know 8 days later he left this world...
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Clearly the IMPOSTER did it... Billy Idol warned him that the "usual crew is sus."
Wow this dude was probably going to start his own MTV soon if he hadn’t been killed in the crash. Way ahead of his time. Killed it at everything. Rip
R.I.P. Marc Bolan & David Bowie...
"Music Legends"
Betcha there is one helluva jam session going on up there now...
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R.I.P. Barrie Masters of Eddie and the Hot Rods
Just read about his passing, I only saw this performance five days ago.
no and yes ... in the near future you understand this words ...
jako lady di one of the beatles named john ....
Love him or hate him he was good at what he did,and this tv series,which i saw in the 70’s,is amazing as i love punk rock 😎 forever
But who on earth were Lip Service?! And how in hell did they ever manage to get a record deal, let alone appear on TV.
Only love. 🥰 wishin my name was Deborah kinda luv
i need that leopard outfit! and the red mary janes! what a doll he was...
Totally fabulous 💜
such a tragic loss. marc is a legend in his own right. timeless tunes.
RIP JIMMY MCcULOCH...HE WAS CONSIDERED A PRODOGY GUTARIST WITH WINGS AND WHEN HE WAS ONLY 16 YRS OF AGE HE WAS WITH THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER JACK WHO WAS ON THE DRUMMS
25:01 The last sound we heard of Marc is him laughing...
His eyes his smile wow
What a unique voice he had! Distinctive! That is the most important trait in Rock! To Not sound like anyone else! And he didn’t! Bowie too!
All the great ones don’t sound like anyone else!
😎👏🏻🎸
Eddie & the Hot Rods were brilliant. RIP Barrie Masters.
Absolutely heartbreaking to know that he would soon die tragically after this... a wasted life that was too good for the world 😕❤️❤️💔🎩 R.I.P Marc !!!
First Marc sings Ride a White Swan and then Bowie comes out and sings Heroes?
British TV was pretty damn good back then!
RIP Bolan and Bowie
I wonder if they are together again? That would be great!
I get a melancholy feeling knowing that they are both gone now. I guess no one gets out alive. It’s just very sad that life has to end at some point and the good times are over then.
Especially when music is such a celebration of life and generally makes you feel good and alive!
Still hurts after all the years miss you Marc
You said it!
That was so cute marc and his son together
Shanika Bradley : It wasn’t his son though.
@@vicsillnorth7970 oh okay but it was still so adorable☺💞💞💕💕
Jesus she's a lil girl are you blind?
Bowie’s sheer agony at the key mistake will live with me forever 🤣😭
Ikr?! The first time I saw this, I just shook my head in commiseration. But he was a trouper as always, and did a great job.
but he's singing and playing live, the queen bitch Marc isnt. and (Lol) i was in agony too, maybe the only time in history he sticks a note.
Marc is the one and only I've got most of his records he was and still is the main man
Love love love you put the music in my heart trex ❤️😘❤️
This is the first time I realized just how much Marc Bolan was inspired by Buddy Holly.
And the sound which is so distinctive on his song Heroes is the one which Bowie was trying to replicate with his band Tin Machine, and came pretty close.
Growing up during the 1960's and '70s in downtown Brooklyn USA I didn't hear or know much of Bolan and his music except for the couple of hits that made it from the other side of the pond. Less did I know about his show but in time via friends and my own musically curious ears I have come to love his music and realize he was both really talented,& special. I also love how casual/cool he was about it all. Long Live Marc Bolan!
Those 1060's were a rough time.
James Kehoe You don't know the half of it! Thanks.
Whoa, Bowie sticks out, doesn't he? I mean, he's game and that's lovely, but it's obviously clear that he's not "one of the lads" anymore. At all. He's on a different plane all together. Heck, just his look would have fit in any decade from 1977 to 2017, cool at any time, never mind the song, his stage presence, and his performance.
Just blend a couple of genre's together and you can get that at any time, I guess I don't make gods out of rock stars. It is much better, opened me up more to historical art for what that is truly worth. Rock has all this debris of early deaths, drugs, inability to form lasting marriages.
jeffrey dahmer
David totally does, though I didn´t enjoy this particular performance of Heroes, I would have love to see his full performance with Bolan, they looked great and clearly were having fun.
I loved this show at age 12 in 1977. And it was aimed at kids like me. Older music and some new wave punk. And even my dad stopped and watched Bowie.
I love Generation X. One of the best bands ever.
"as pretty as I am"
Heart Throb dance lol!! OMG so 70s love it love it so bad it's good!
The Prince of Pout! Godfather of Glam! For all his faults, Marc was the transition from 60s to 70s, he blazed the trail of glam, cross-dressing etc. and opened the doors for Bowie, Gary Glitter, Sweet etc., up to Adam & The Antz, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and others in 80s then Smiths, Oasis as time goes on and many more.
no no no no... we do not talk about gary glitter. he's been DELETED.
Love this rockin Deborah
Thank god this tv series isn’t the only surviving footage of Marc
My name is Hayley I been Marc Bolan seen 13 years ago I still love ❤️ watching Marc show and on all of them he look gorgeous 😍 in different suit 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😉😻😻😻😻😻😻😻
Idol was probably considered tame since Marc was in Johns Children .
It is hard to believe seeing Marc was a glam innovator but he was also a wizard and was well suited to change like people of the misty mist do.
Marc with a child! He really must loved children a lot!
I think that was Rolan Bolan, looks like him, right age.
Ali Salverson it was his own son,,,,,Rolan
Yes, ,, it is his son, ,, gary glitter was the pedo bear, xd xd xd
@@flotantesolar4751 it doesn't look like Rolan, it looks like a little girl and the child looks older than what Rolan would've been at the time.
David and mark are so missed They live on in their music
That's the kind of things I wanna watch on tv!
What sort of british brilliance is this? If I knew london was gonna make this scene back in the day, i'd 've never left.
+el scientifico it was made in Manchester actually ;p
+el scientifico yeah it was worth sticking around for the 70s, 80s and then in the 90s money drove the interesting people out.
Tony...absolutely. London is now a mere shell of what it once was..Chelsea, Notting Hill, Richmond...just a lot of banker w@nkers there now.
Bowie singing live .... HERO 😎
Billy too, not Bolan
the bassist's energy i LOVE IT
I was fortunate enough to have seen Marc Bolan/T Rex in 1972. Saw Bowie in 1978.
Steve Summers, guitarist for Lip Service: "I was guitarist in the band and at the point of doing the show, we’d been together a couple of years, although with different line-ups. At the time of the show, the band was Mick Hayes on bass, Brian Tan-Brown on vocals, Simon Conway on Drums and myself on guitar. Lasted about 5 years in total. Brian and I carried on writing and made some demos, but these didn’t amount to much. Unfortunately, I’ve lost touch with him now. He was a really great singe, and talented writer. Mick and I are still good friends, and he has never stopped playing, and eventually becoming lead singer with Raider, and latterly Randy and the Rockets. Norman lives in Hawaii and is still playing as far as I know. I’m currently fronting the Steve Summers Band, playing Blues-Rock and original material, doing local gigs. For the show, lots of ego trips going on, and as the only non-famous band on the show, I think we felt a bit overwhelmed. I did at least. Bowie was great, if a little aloof, Generation X - with Billy Idol - who were being touted as the next big thing - were very full of themselves, speaking to no-one. The Rods got very angry because of union restrictions - they weren’t actually allowed to perform and smashed up one of the changing rooms in protest. The reason they weren’t allowed to perform was because David and Marc wanted to have a jam - the one you see on the show - and the recording of the show was already running late. The Rods piece that was broadcast was actually filmed later in London and added to the show before transmission (the show was filmed in Manchester at the old Granada studios). There are reports that Bowie’s security cleared the studio before Marc & David could perform with Marc’s management getting rather irate over it. Tempers were certainly strained over the ‘jobsworth’ attitude of the unions, but certainly we were all there to witness the ‘historic’ jam. Possibly the last time Marc played live… most of the stuff on the show was mimed, apart from the Bowie/ Bolan jam and Generation X… not sure how they swung that. You can see on the jam that it ended prematurely after someone ‘pulled the plug’. Not the way rock-stars of their ilk are usually treated. Both guys were pretty pissed off in the bar later, although they took the time to talk to us. Marc was especially nice. At the time, you weren’t actually allowed to mime to your record and had to re-record it in the Granada studios. This was a real pain since we’d spent ages recording the single. I later found out that trick was to go into the studio and record it then at the last minute, switch the master to the one already recorded. I’m sure this is what Bowie did with Heroes since it sounds very much like the record, including Robert Fripp from King Krimson on guitar, and he was nowhere to be seen at the show. Bowie did sing it live though, and very good it was too! So the version we mime to on the show was the one we’d recorded in the previous 2 days in the Manchester studio. Still, I was quite happy with it. The show was great fun to record, I talked to Marc a lot. He liked my guitar (a Les Paul Black Beauty) and when I asked him about his original 1958 Les Paul that he was famous for, he told me he’d had it stolen, and had sent his roadie out to get 20 new ones and he’d pick the one that felt closest to his old one. The guitarist from Gen X played one of Marc’s guitars I think, since their gear was held up en-route. Marc was complimentary about the song and the guitar solo in it. I knew he lived in Barnes, which is very close to where I worked at the time in Mortlake, and he invited me round to jam with him and Brian May (of Queen) who also lived nearby. Very exciting, but of course it never happened after he tragically died shortly after the show was recorded. Marc treated us all very well. He was utterly charming, and it was a great pleasure to meet him. He was very natural, we just talked like a couple of guitarists about songs, song writing, guitars and so on. He was really chuffed to have David on the show since they were old mates from before either of them had ‘made it’. After the show, we all went to the bar. I did chat to Marc a bit and he was still livid that the plug had been pulled on his jam with Bowie. David was there too of course, and he and Marc went into a bit of a huddle then left fairly shortly after a quick drink with those who were there. Marc did thank us for doing the show, wished us luck and said he’d be in touch with me. I don’t recall the Rods or Generation X being in the bar, but they were all very stand off-ish anyway, very into their own thing. At that time Marc had been on a health kick and lost lots of weight. Some say he was looking too thin and gaunt. Others say he was still taking stuff. He was really on the ball I’d say, sharp and witty, so no sign of drugs or booze. Of course, he was quite small and rather thin anyway, and he certainly looked it that day. I remember his hair looked a bit rough - not the glorious cork-screw mane of old - but then again, maybe it had always been like that. He seemed high energy and full of beans to be honest, but if he’d been dieting, that would account for the hair looking a bit iffy. It was a great experience that I’ll never forget. I was absolutely gutted when I heard on the radio a few weeks later that he’d died. Couldn’t really believe it, especially since it looked like I might get a chance to hang out with him. A great loss to all fans, and to me at the time, it also felt a bit personal. All the memories come flooding back whenever I hear his stuff, but especially Deborah, since he performed that on the show we were on. The show itself is a fantastic memory and it was great to see it finally released on DVD a couple of years ago. I had an old VHS recording of the show that was hardly watchable anymore. A great record of a great period of my life.
As a late seventies early eighties punk,I always felt cruelly denied that I couldn't curl my lip like Billy idol.
I'm so so loving this part... @14:16. ;)
awesome awesome awesome
Lip-service is new to me, I reckon the band had a great sound. 1977 I was already in Australia 5 years, T.Rex fan then and now, but I didn't realise how fabulous a talent Marc was until the 1990s. Only when the chips are downer than down, does the heart dictate which oil or liquid fuel it requires to swing into life again. Music is the balm.
It is how I learned that Bolan, T.Rex are a cut above the rest.
I was born in the 90s and it still saddens me to see Marc trying his hardest to mime to his own song...
ITV's Bolan-branded answer to Top of the Pops. Cute. Like most stuff around this time I cannot for the life of me recall whether I saw it originally. Though I was only a wee nipper of 7, my Mum loved music and Dad bless him, when he was out of prison was either playing an instrument, drunk or usually both though not necessarily at home doing it.
Best of times, worst of times etc.
Ah... the classic episode with Billy Idol and Bowie. Marc fell from the stage at the end, much to his friend David's amusement. Glad they left that stumble in, but would have like to heard the duet they were about to sing as well
Seemed like an impromptu jam. Bowie was just making up some words and then it all broke down. Classic television.
It's available online. Full track recorded on the day. Standing Next to You or something...
@@peteb1206na it wasnt. Full song is available online
@@user-li3fr8jl3b Thanks. I'll check it out.
9 days after this show was recorded, Marc was dead.
Tiger of the Night absolutely heartbreaking 💔 he had so much potential
@@aimeehobbs5116 u can see the spirits in him
he didn't even get to see this air. that evil woman who murdered him took a bunch of money from Bowie and fled to the US with Rolan when they announced they were going to prosecute her for manslaughter. she was drunk and coked out. i don't know how she can live with herself.
@@silvergirlie There were other factors involved in the crash also. A wheel nut had not been properly tightened on Marc's Mini, for example.
Too tragic for words! 💔
Marc Bolan and TREX ruled ! As far as I'm concerned T-rex & Bryan Ferry were the only things I listened to in the 70's, the world is a poorer place for his loss.
Interesting that Bowie's parts are the only songs that aren't lip-synched. That and the bass player's "Luigi" outfit during "Groove a Little Baby".
Amazing Marc forever young... I lov you!
haha Billy the Kid had to grow up a bit and perfect his snarls but you can see the talent there.
Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do
Generation X had to borrow equipment that day...if you notice, the guitarist is using Marc's Cherry Les Paul :D
That's so sweet right there. Marc has his son Rolan on stage with him.
That’s not Rolan. Just some other kid.
Rolan was with his mum
Marc was a star but no presenter.
David was a star who knew better than to present.
I miss them both RIP
my god the disco dancing at 14:30 - it's perfect.
The best of the best .. Bowie. .. and Bolan in his short life ..x
Marc not only couldn't lip sync be he couldn't finger sync either! Then he falls off the stage on his first word! Brilliant.
His Les Paul wasn't plugged in, and his fingers were not doing the right things for the tunes! very noticeable even to a non-musician like me :)
Oakleaf700 Agreed, but it was plugged in for that last bit with Bowie. In fact he may have tripped on the cord since it was between his legs-
Bowie already on the road to his future sound and influencing the next generation with “Heroes”.
Enjoyed watching this very much. I assume the baby is Marc Bolan's son Rolan? Lovely. Thanks for posting :)
Think it's great that people are still turning on to this music, especially U.S......who weren't as exposed first time round !!!...
マーク・ボランはつくづく天才作曲家だと思う。
I've never heard of Lip Service before but they're kind of incredible. lol
Those were the days.....
Thankfully we still have Billy Idol
I think nearly every act on this show borrowed that Dark Red Les Paul.
OMG! how young is Billy Idol! and Tony James from Sigue Sigue Sputnik!
so cute! Billy was only 21 here...
Brilliant
Inspired Me as a Performer from early of times....Always thought I had found-out a little Secret from U.K. that many Americans My Age hadn't seen or heard Quite-Yet..hahaha!!!
Dang that’s wonderful
Marc and David ♥️🙏
mister T wanted to call Eddie and the hot rods just "rods"..ok MARC..yous thee boss man.
El ultimo encuentro público entre Marc Bolan y David Bowie. Esto es histórico. Nunca hubo una rivalidad como siempre se creyó
Lip Service nice song!!
Do you think by juxtaposing the exciting Punk and New wave acts with the crappy old MOR singers, Bolan was subversively making the case for the new bands and the end of the entertainment establishment?
The bassist is playing great stuff, but he looks like a nerd fan who wandered onstage and hasn't gotten caught yet.
+StephenGrayce, That's Herbie Flowers on the bass. You would also recognise him as the bass player on Lou Reed's 'walk on the wild side'.
Good call
looks....sigh
*@40BigCD* Ofcourse...great session player ....which doesn't guarantee great band material...
He's often seen behind Marc in dungarees or pyamas wiggling about....The proof is in the pudding of Marc's last recordings ....the same boring old boogie woogie twelve bar song structures ...
The bass player wrote Grandad for Clive Dunn, which kept Ride a White Swan off the number 1 position in Jan 1971. He also played bass on a multitude of famous songs, including Space Oddity by Bowie. Herbie Flowers is still around.
Lovely bit of DISCO 💃 thrown into the mix... awesome 😎
happy birthday Marc love your lunamystkile Beltane keep a little Marc in your heart
Incredible quality - thanks for sharing ;-)
Ride a white swan was pretty good on the show, It's nice that they added a base line unlike the original it seems..
There is a bass line. It was recorded by Marc, who played Tony Visconti's Fender Precision.
ha Billy Idol
i can see Johnny Depp playing Marc Bolan in a a biography movie (except younger and thinner)
Okay what’s with the whole Johnny depp looks like Marc Bolan thing like he looks nothing like him no disrespect
So interesting. Recently I’ve been reviewing any Marc Bolan footage to get a better sense of him and his place in music history/lore. I don’t give much thought to actors, but yesterday the thought actually popped into my head that Johnny Depp could play Marc in a biopic. I agree he doesn’t exactly look like him, but I think he could catch Marc’s ethereal-like way he carried himself. Maybe it’s also the jaw bone structure. IDK!
Keep a little Marc in your heart same Marc channel
Great that they left that final "mishap" in at the end, could easily have edited it out! 2 Thumbs up, to them both. Saw this the first time round, great memories relived!
***** I assume that is because this episode was aired weeks after he had died, so those producing it were probably DELIBERATELY cutting it that way. Don't you think? He might have said the good bye in that recorded episode, but it wasn't aired, because everybody knew then he would not come back for another time.
Albgardis Tausendschoen The show was on a 6 week run only. He didn't say his usual goodbye because this was the last episode.
So far Bowie WAS the best on the show!
Sounds like Bowie and Bolan really playing live?
Marc wanted to re-shoot that bit, but it was the end of the shooting day (the crew had a strong union, so when it was time to stop work, they STOPPED). The crew were unwilling to go into overtime to do any retakes, so the editor had no choice but to use whatever footage was shot.
Wow, David Bowie really is impressive after the river Styx of crap music on this show. It's a shame for us that they didn't make it through the final tune together (especially after watching Marc mime through 6 episodes of this show!) but it's awesome that they both laughed about it.
Um, this may be the hottest Bowie ever looked. The last jam at the end with those shades.... dying right now.
16.52 Eddie & The Hotrods Do anything You Wanna Do
Marc looks like the Gatekeeper from Ghostbusters in his pink satin shirt.
I could just about handle this tight up until the male dancers at 14.29. Then I burst out laughing. Those moves! In jump suits! The pressure on the stitching!
Eddie and the Hot Rods were great. Idol and Bowie became massive stars. Would Bolan of? I don't think so.
Lovely Facebook tribute to this show on Facebook by Lip Service
20.19 David Bowie. Heroes
I loved all episodes...except the second one, because I can't find it...does anybody know where a girl might find episode 2? :)
This is sensational. Such energy. Whole show is brilliant. The Bowie jam is such a bonus! Did they transmit it on the 28th, since Marc had just died?
❤️
At the end Marc seems completely sozzled, Bowie looks irritated and slightly disgusted...laughs politely.
,I note with interest that the drummer of Generation X is wearing a Mod T-Shirt.
Does anybody know if this is his original Les Paul or a replacement..it does look much darker in colour...
マークは永久保存しなくてはならない。
Can’t believe after all these years Eddie and the hot rods still sound the same
End of the series, not long before he died. Apparently according to his biography it all kicked off backstage, bowies "people" throwing their weight around kicking crew out, insisting on closed set, bolan got pissed hence the fall at the end, no time to re record it.
I thought that they pre-recorded but because Bolan died it was cooler to leave the "trip' instead.
But David 😩