...its writer Jacques Brel singing it.

(Au Suivant)

It is utterly fucking staggering. I wonder how they recorded it though - there are no mics on the violins! Unless they recorded the band first, then overdubbed the violins, and they all mimed and Alex sang a live vocal? Whatever, it's superb.

Saw it last night and this guy had that Gene Vincent rock 'n' roll factor.
Can't buy it, can't teach it.....should be on the national curriculum.
If the three LPs he made in the 60s came out again on CD, I'd be the first in the queue.

Those first 72 seconds scared the life out of me,truly frightening

See Brel above!

I wanted to like SAHB, but week after week of that clunky TOTP performance cauterised my goodwill. "That's the reason y'all Americans drink... cawFEE." Seriously?

The Brel song is fantastic. Scott Walker's version is hard to beat, if you want it in English, but Gavin Friday does it too.

Been posted before, but no less staggering. The little dances!

I saw this when it was transmitted - I can only have been around 11.

I have no idea how I ended up still being up at whatever time it was on, but it was terrifying and entrancing. I still have my tattered copy of "Anthem" by SAHB, the first single I ever bought.

Many years later my band recorded in BBC Scotland, I told the sound engineer about seeing it. He told me he had worked on that show - his first week at the BBC. The BBC had set up their standard mikes, and after a brief attempt, Alex Harvey shouted "Roadie! Bring me the rock and roll mike." His roadie appeared with a Shure SM57, and once they had heard it in use, the BBC swapped over to using them. The engineer also told me that they were great guys to deal with.

Menacingly fantastic. Check it out.

a pair of nylon stockings anyone?

They said "Is you name Alexander?
Well I said "Why sure"
They said "You're the cat that we've been lookin' for".
But I was framed.
I never did nuthin'.

Alex was a true one-off.
I shared a carriage with him from Kings Cross to Glasgow many many years ago, but he was sorta pished, so I never plucked up the courage to speak to him.
He also was carrying Zal Cleminson's guitar case...

...but definitely with a little bit of Gene Vincent and Link Wray in his persona/character... That was a great clip of Framed - never seen that before (from Norway, if the NRK logo is to be believed?). Just for the hell of it here's some Gene:

...when repeated on the last OGWT show, NY Eve 1987. Its totally nuts but brilliant.

This was a live Alex vocal with the band mimeing. The OGWT Delilah performance is even better, watched that so many times when it was repeated of the Sound of the Seventies. Fantastic stuff, fantastic band.