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Bloody DLT again
Posted by Jim M on 30 June 2011 - 8:02pm.
He hasn't got a clue, he just said Liverpool Express' new single is going to be a "monster hit sound" and that the Brotherhood of Man's new self pastiche single will go straigt to no. 1. I don't have my guiness book to hand but I'm presuming it didn't. Not to mention him pretending to strangle Mud's drummer.
I think that punk wasn't a backlash against Genesis et al (poor old Wakeman gets the most stick though doesn't he?) it was against Radio 1 DJs. *****.
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Punk = Backlash against Radio 1 DJs
I think there is a lot in that.
My goodness, Smashey & Nicey end of an era were on the money werent they?
DLT - Cunt.
Is that the Brotherhood of Man with fluffy dog single???
I havent watched this weeks episode yet. I have seen it in the past and remember the fucking dog. The worst single EVER.
But TRex tune is good and I've always loved that Liverpool Express tune.
Not sure why DLT managed to get himself on stage with the acts so much. None of the other presenters did that as far as I recall.
I saw that recent Queen documentary with the lost TOTP footage and DLT turns up on stage for that. Did DLT have some sort of hold over the TOTP producer to endlessly be allowed such buffoonery????
maybe he got to hang out ..
and be zany with seventies pop grandees because...
he was as or more famous than most of them ...
everyone was a lot less self conscious (obviously..the guy thrives on being full time tit)
it was not the old grey whistle test..
etc..
or maybe he was dealing mandrax to the glitteratti
Big in Burma
This has to be one of the most bizarre news stories of the year so far; The Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who will give this year's BBC Reith Lectures, has revealed that she enjoyed listening to Dave Lee Travis on the BBC World Service during her time under house arrest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13859583
DLT; not all bad then?
I can only assume that ...
... if his programme had been done by anyone else she would have said the same thing.
"My one lifeline to the world was Dave Lee Travis / Bruno Brookes / Tiger Tim etc etc"
It's an interesting twist...
...on Stockholm syndrome
Tiger Tim!
his previously unknown role in the pro-democracy movement.......
Hmm yeah
Those there is a moment in the 1976 Top of The Pops accompanying documentaries. A board of BBC appointed music "aficionados" are sitting around in a smoke filled atmosphere. There is DLT smoking his pipe. They are all there of course, carefully choosing the Top Of The Pops set list. In those days basically whether recent releases will succeed or not succeed. Hmm… what were BBC salaries in those days?
Hang on a mo'
Liverpool Express? Brotherhood of Man? Have I traveled through a gap in the space/time continuum and found myself in 1976?
erm careful
not sure about via youtube, but the original CD can blow the cones out of your speakers...
20 Golden Showers, indeed?
Double-entendre alert!
Wurzels
I think its a fine thing the BBC are doing with these old TOTP repeats. There is so much of it that I was too young to appreciate, detest or understand at the time.
For example I only just realised this month that "I drove my tractor through your haystack last night" was possibly a brilliant euphemism that the Wurzels managed to slip past the BBC guardians of the nation's morals.
And "...I threw my pitchfork at your dog"?
Ulp!
Getting out my pitchfork?
Poking your hay?
Briefly I was a fan
My memory of DLT's show in the mid 70s was that it was almost the only place to hear funk in the daytime. He'd play album tracks from the Meters, Isleys, Mother's Finest and EWF, among others. I stopped listening in the 80s, as he was obviously playing music he loathed.
Meantime here's DLT, gogo dancer and Chas Hodges on bass
It was cheap
for the Kindle so I got Johnny Beerlings autobiography and apart from being one of the most terribly written books I have ever read, it also highlights what a dreadful shower of egocentric halfwits the majority of the 70s breed of DJs were. Every new paragraph makes me want to fly Edmonds' helicopter blades into their throats.
Apart from that it's good.
Made me want to
Smack his face in with a plank - if I was Muds drummer I think I'd of shoved a large floortom up his hairy cornflake.
Guinness Book of Hit Singles...
...my regular companion when watching TOTP now.
Whenever the presenter says "this is going to be a smash" (as DLT did last night) or "this is my record of the week" (as Noel Edmonds did last week before that awful Surprise Sisters Beatles cover) I take great pleasure in looking the record up and finding out it wasn't a hit.
Almost restores your faith in the record-buying public of 1976 but then you get the the end of the show and the Wurzels are still at No 1...
Everyone's trying to be so cool slagging
the Hairy Cornflake. Blatently obvious they're all just jealous man.