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Episode 9

Old Grey Whistle Test 40 Series 1
Episode 9 of 16

Bob Harris continues to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the classic music TV show. He talks to Debbie Harry and plays archive songs from ZZ Top and Tubeway Army.

Bob Harris continues to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the classic music TV show and episode nine marks the transition of the programme from the 70s into the 80s.

Bob talks to Debbie Harry about Blondie's New Year's Eve concert from Glasgow which was broadcast by the show and Greg Lake reminisces about the filmed reports of ELP's American tour. There are sessions from Judie Tzuke and Steve Hackett, guitarist with Genesis during the classic line-up of the early 70s, who continues to have an illustrious solo career.

The programme also features archive songs from ZZ Top, Tubeway Army and there are period performances from Tom Waits and Public Image Ltd, the latter introduced (in an archive interview) by Annie Nightingale as her favourite Whistle Test performance during her four years as presenter of the show.

First broadcast in 2011.

57 minutes

Last on

Wed 21 Mar 2018 23:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Stereolab

    Ping Pong

    • Polygram TV.

  • Last Train Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    Stone Fox Chase

  • ZZ Top

    Cheap Sunglasses (Old Grey Whistle Test archive session)

  • Judie Tzuke

    Out Of This World (Old Grey Whistle Test 40 session)

  • Judie Tzuke

    Stay With Me 'Til Dawn (Old Grey Whistle Test 40 session)

  • Tubeway Army

    Are Friends Electric (Old Grey Whistle Test archive session)

  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer

    Fanfare for the Common Man

  • Steve Hackett

    Prairie Angel/Los Endos (Old Grey Whistle Test 40 session)

  • Public Image Ltd

    Careering (Old Grey Whistle Test archive session)

  • Tom Waits

    On the Nickel (Old Grey Whistle Test archive session)

  • Blondie

    Dreaming (Old Grey Whistle Test archive performance)

  • Blondie

    Union City Blue (Old Grey Whistle Test archive performance)

  • Last Train Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    Stone Fox Chase

Broadcasts

  • Wed 19 Oct 2011 22:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
  • Sun 15 Dec 2013 04:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music
  • Wed 21 Mar 2018 23:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2