HW: Hawkwind trivia, Q&S

[M Holmes]

Stephen Lindsey writes:

> >
> > Stephen Lindsey writes:
> >
> > > I always thought the wierd tape version was from the Top of the Pops
> > > performance
> >
> > Eh? What Top of the Pops performance?
>
> Myabe you're right I'm thinking Marc Bolan, (memory like a sieve......)
>
> > They did play The Marc Bolan Show in 1977 but I'm pretty sure they just
> > mimed to the single, which is why Brock refused to appear.
> >
>
> But I thought the story I heard was that they recorded it for the show
> at the rehearsal (with Brock) and then mimed to the playback (not the single)
> thats similar to say the Ed Sullivan show approach, and where the recording
> might have come from.

No, I'm sure I checked this out and it was just the single they played.

> Has anyone ever seen this incidentally

Oh yes. I got time off my first ever job to go home and watch it.

> I guess they didn't have VCRs back then .........

Our school had one, though I believe it was the Phillips 200 system.

I think I have a not very good recording of the show somewhere.

FoFP