A month and a half ago, I
wrote1
about watching an episode of 'Top of the Pops' on YouTube that featured both
Blodwyn Pig and Jethro Tull. I mentioned inter alia the appearance on
this show of King Crimson miming to 'Cat food'; it has long been thought
that this footage has been lost (although stills remain) ... until someone
discovered footage from a German show called Hits a Go Go that shows this
clip!
Apparently, it was discovered that this German programme used copies of the performances from TOTP with newly filmed host introductions, which were not wiped. While the original BBC broadcast was in color, the copy sent to Germany was only black and white. So that's what's shown in the video.
According to the text to the clip, there is a somewhat out-of-sync live Greg Lake vocal over the track although I didn't notice this (I'll listen again and maybe I'll pick it out). What I did notice was that on the thrice repeated 'Cat food' line, Greg's face is shown from different camera angles, so this must have been planned in advance.
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| 89 | Early days in Habonim | Habonim | |
| 732 | Crossroads | Personal | |
| 871 | Bruce Rowland, Chris Squire RIP | Obituary, Fairport Convention, Yes | |
| 872 | Vinyl log 17 - 1 July | Vinyl log, Fairport Convention | |
| 1154 | New chicken recipes | Cooking | |
| 1236 | Road 38 update | Personal | |
| 1519 | Kate Bush (once again) | Kate Bush |
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